Ask John. Paramount got this site closed in an awful hurry. Nothing to do with the host we were with at the time. Just legal stuffs.

To me, they’re also advertising that I should not get hosting with Godaddy.

Godaddy, you are gone daddy.

And I couldn’t care less. They are fighting a losing war. There are thousand of sites out there, lots of different ways to share files and most file-sharing is now decentralized. They shut down the most popular servers, the next ones in the list become the most popular. They close a popular site, people simply start using some of the other sites. They just can’t win.

Also, in my opinion piracy is wrong only when the quality of the pirated content is too low. In this case it negatively affects the content itself, which doesn’t have the impact it should have on the consumer. Otherwise, I see nothing wrong with it, for several reasons. First, the price of the original content is way too high – especially for people outside US. A few years ago I would have had to pay almost my entirely monthly salary to get the complete Star Trek TNG on DVD. Second, much of the pirated content is basically art and education (movies, books, music, software) – which in my opinion should be freely available. For the many poor countries around the world, free access to books and software is god’s gift. I know what it meant for me and most of the people here.

Instead of walking down the street, say that you are standing on the corner to advertise someone’s product (which does happen often in the city) and then someone came up and said, “Hey have you got any pot?”.

Still the same example, and it’s only as minor change, but it at least includes the part where you are getting paid while you stand there.