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Re: Regional differences in P2P
- From: Mikael Abrahamsson
- Date: Fri Jul 16 17:01:28 2004
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Private FTP sites seem to be more common among those who trade
> unlicensed, copyrighted material for profit. This is clearly
> criminal. Certainly this isn't what your average P2P user is doing.
Has anyone ever done a money trail investigation regarding this? The only
people I ever thought was making money off of copyrighted material was the
people selling "warez CDs" in the small ads in the paper, and that was 5-8
ago. Back then it was quite common for people to pay to get a CDR with
stuff, I haven't heard about that in a long time now.
I would believe that most of the money now being made is from counterfit
software where people put up basically a whole organisation with printing
presses for manuals, real CD/DVD pressing equipment and perhaps even the
holographic mark, and shrinkwrap it all and sell it as the real thing.
That has very little to do with p2p, though. I am not aware of any money
changing hands in p2p.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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