I doubt very much that it'll have much of a long term impact (sorry to say it, but filesharing has always happened in this community)
Before filesharing required either multiple friends each buying separate subscriptions, or complicated systems. SFV has been around for years, but how many people know about it even now?
This site sticks everything up on a simple directory.
It's quite different, and more importantly, PUBLIC. It's already had a long-term impact by stirring the pot, and laying the groundwork.
better to simply educate people and give them alternatives.
Except you
aren't educating people, you're just telling them a story they'd like to believe. I'm not slamming that- it works, and there's validity there. But don't pretend that's "education."
The truth is that selling .package files is illegal, and many paysites don't even pretend they aren't stores. It's an inconvenient truth, and "we should all share because it's nice!" does have broader appeal- but don't attribute a higher moral ground to spin.
This site is an alternative, even if you don't like it.
Just try and see things from a bigger picture - you don't want to alienate creators becuase of pro-filesharing, you actually want to encourage free sites (and thus, anti-paysite) by showing alternatives to hosting etc.
That is the carrot. Everyone needs carrots. They're good for your eyes.
This is the stick- if a site, new or formerly free, decides to make money off files without paying EA for the permissions, their pay content goes up on this site.
In an ideal world, everyone would respond to the carrot, and paysites would evaporate.
This is not an ideal world.
Many paysites would stay up even if EA brought the hammer down. The only way to get to those people is to prevent them from profiting off of what doesn't belong to them.
The community's words can be ignored- these actions cannot be.
Frankly I'm getting tired of the extremist attitudes of people here.
Frankly, I don't think you realize that almost
everyone here has a different, diverging opinion, and only really agree that this site should exist.
Yes, some people think you're an idiot, but at the very same time, some think you're right. And all shades in between.
Lumping us all together as a raving hive-mind doesn't do your point any credit.
You are entitled to think that two wrongs don't make a right.
We are entitled to consider this justice rather than a "wrong."
I agree to disagree on this point.
I dont tell you what to do, but you seem to think you have some right to tell me what I should do? *shrugs*
You don't? Except for saying that this site is ultimately worthless and just for "shock" value. Really.
We use your site too, bub. That means we're part of "your" community, and that includes the right to complain when we see something we don't like.
You aren't obligated to listen, but you should be able to give an answer other than "you guys are mean, so your point is invalid."
The ruling is inconsistent.
You were called on it, so deal.
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