Reply #351: Direct downloads are where it's at now. [View All]

[joshcryer]

Companies offering file hosting for ad revenue. They take down flagged files, copyright infringed files, so they skirt the niggling distribution aspect of copyright. It's actually ironic. A kid sharing files will get sued and if he fights it, he will lose, and pay tens of thousands of dollars. A corporation shares files, by enabling generic file sharing, and what do you know, they're completely immune from such lawsuits, they simply "remove the file" and pow, they are free and clear.

Nevermind the tens of hundreds of people who download those files before the file is flagged and inspected and then finally removed.