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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. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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