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Originally Posted by davethedope
The only point I was making was that it's something rights holders should do for themselves if they don't want to have to pay someone to do it for them.
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That's the problem, they don't care about a single rights holder unless you lawyer up and go after them. It's much cheaper and efficient to have someone represent you and many others collectively. Secondly, why do it myself when I have many other things to do and I can pay someone who is much more efficient at it than I am and already has the contacts in place to get the job done? Ak does somehting and he does it well and getting better at it every day. Why would I want to start at zero and learn everything he has done and spend my time on it, when I can just send him a few bucks to do it for me?
We also pay a company to send DMCAs for us when they find our content. They remove 1000s of links for us from old DVD rips of ours. Sales have been on a steady increase for the past year and I'm sure it is no coincidence that it has something to do with our content becoming more difficult to find for free. None of this is rocket science. I honestly can't believe this even has to be explained to people, over and over and over again. Most of all, explained to people who it supposedly doesn't even affect in the first place.