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It's not a slippery slope at all. It's quite clear cut.

If a shop was distributing fenced goods or human traffic we wouldn't allow it to remain in business because they also distribute free and legitimate groceries.

Do you see how slippery the slope is? You have left from the tiny tiny tiny niche use of file transfer for free content to the massive industrious downloading of intellectual property.

As long as you are still being paid your salary though...easy to have a faux-morally superior position when it is not your efforts being ripped off.



You seem to miss that this project is based on three legal programs: a search engine, a torrent client and a media player. What next, ban search engines from displaying illegal content?


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