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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii
On a note to Squealer, government agencies catch criminal sites all the time and leave them up and running. Just reading news headlines for last 20 years will tell you that. I think that concept is widely accepted these days. So are honeypots etc.
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Of course they do. The primary difference being that they are acting within the law, have oversight, answer to courts and judges and other government watchdog agencies or Congress.
They don't just arbitrarily declare themselves one day, the defenders of freedom and honesty and integrity and then act illegally, calling anyone who does the same a "pirate".
Guess what? YOU can't go set up a CP forum to catch people who trade CP. Right? This example is no different. It's not difficult to understand this basic legal concept. You can't commit criminal copyright infringement and/or contributory infringement and claim you were doing it for the benefit (long term presumably) of the content rights holders for which you have no relationship with whatsoever.
Its not tough to understand.
Sorry, but your friend is an asshole. Fighting piracy is a noble task for sure. But AdultKing is a total fucking douchebag that really one cares about his own self serving agenda. Now he is saying he monetized the traffic as well - as a way of saying "thank you" to plugrush. Uh huh..... then that is also criminal as he willfully and knowingly infringed on other peoples rights for financial gain. But yeah... he's all about truth and justice. Anyone with 1/2 a brain can see that he's really all about Robert.