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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions
I agree with your understanding of the problem and how it works, however, the only true way you will cut off this epidemic is to eliminate the lifeline which is money.
Love does some things, money does all.
Not allowing payment exchange via merchant accounts will prevent this problem from being what it is today.
People were initially DDOSing this site and AK with dedicated servers at the beginning of the campaign. Now they've run out of some money and don't have near the resources they used to.
DRM isn't the longterm solution, having better control over merchant account approval is the only solution as money has the final say in anything.
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Obviously piracy has been going on for a long time, and still is even without monetization. It's been going on forever without it, and many dedicated people still do it without it. If anything, distributing through file lockers for affiliate payment is a perk.
While I understand the strategy to cut off money it still doesn't protect a rights owner at all, or eliminate distribution or anything really. So while attacking file lockers may stop people from monetizing from other peoples product, the product owner is still at a loss no matter what, and people can still get their product through other channels for free. That strategy needs to work with other ones such as what 6South is saying. Alone it does very little except put an owner out of x amount of dollars paying for the service to help stop it. You need to cut things off at the source, then employ strategies like going after file lockers, etc to cut off illegal distribution. In the case of porn I think the only real potential customers probably just go to tube sites anyway.
Cutting off the money will not stop the sharing and distribution. It will just stop uploaders from profiting from it, but again the product owner is still at a loss no matter what. Prevention is really important.