text: USC report finds a shift in advertiser-supported piracy - latimes.com
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  ethicalfan at 11:19 AM February 16, 2013
  Even if all revenue from advertising on pirate index sites were eliminated, it would do nothing to prevent Accel Partner's BitTorrent piracy in terms of units lost from growing 40% a year as Cisco's latest forecasts state. ISPs like Verizon who makes $120B a year shield their subscribers and make it impossible for individual rights holders to avail themselves of their protections under the law. The pirate sofware applications like Accel Partner's BitTorrent have built-in search and no longer need index sites.
  ethicalfan at 11:04 AM February 16, 2013
  The law 17 USC 512 (i) states that the ISP has no shield from liability if they are not terminating repeat infringers. If ISPs were following the law, 42% of all US upload traffic wouldn't be used right now to give away every piece of music, film, software, video game and book every made for free. Isohunt says that only 20% of its search requests come from Google. Stopping advertisers from advertising on pirate sites will be a pyrrhic victory. The only way to stop the creative apocalypse is for ISPs to follow the law 17 USC 512 (i).
  The attention being brought to the fact that many major corporations profit from piracy at the expensive of individual artists and creatives is good. The problem is that BitTorrent, a venture backed startup owned by Accel Partners, a major shareholder in Google, has spent $40m specifically designing BitTorrent to help people get around the law. Napster, Grokster, Aimster, Bearshare and Limewire were all sued and lost. BitTorrent has not been sued becuase they used Accel Partner's $40m to learn from these cases and create an architecture that is highly adept at circumeventing the law. With that architecture, the "last mile" for artists and creatives to have sustainable employment (without resorting to patronage) is for ISPs to follow the law and terminate service to their subscribers who are using their internet connections to give away every piece of music, film, software, video game and book every made for free. Comments are filtered for language and registration is required. The Times makes no guarantee of comments' factual accuracy. Readers may report inappropriate comments by clicking the Report Abuse link next to a comment. Here are the full legal terms you agree to by using this comment form.