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Hi, I'm from the same country as the guy - Czech Republic.

I really don't know if to punish people by such a humiliation is a good way to go. That movie is going to be played like one of those short movies you play in the theatre before the main movie. Soon, everybody here will know the man, imagine being him and walking on the street..

And because of the history of the BSA, the company that sue the guy, you cannot be sure, if this video is not just some promotion of the BSA itself, which, by the way, does not have a legal status in the Czech Republic. Company's scandals and campaigns (if your neighbour uses illegal software, tell us and we give you 100 000 CZK [approx. 4 000 EUR] ) in past give whole thing a kind of stinky feeling..

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I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed by the video. I'm not exactly a fan of so-called piracy, but neither am I am fan of the companies (their business practices) which prevailed in the lawsuit against the man. I gave the guy a view.

>Soon, everybody here will know the man, imagine being him and walking on the street..

I predict a lot of high-fives and free pints.

If this is a BSA campaign, just looking at the youtube comments, it's kind of stupid, because people are supporting the guy as a result and speaking badly about BSA.

I'm going to pirate the movie, remix it, and produce my own derivative work, intended as social commentary about the necessity for consumers to understand the manipulation process behind this industry. Think I'll get sued, or have to make my own penance-film, if it turns out great? Stay tuned ..

* ( just kidding )

Not necessarily.

The market price for 200,000 "video" views is under EUR$600 if he buys cheap muted banner slots.

I wonder how they intend to verify the views.

Just like everyone else, they rely on YouTube to do the count. They have proven in the past that they crackdown on huge view cheaters (see PSY having to pass the billion bar twice).

Google/YouTube protect against a certain kind of view fraud -- where the cost of delivering sticky traffic to the Youtube video is lower than the publisher-share of advertising revenue.

If you're willing to pay more than that threshold, you can still certainly pay for YouTube views:

http://www.peopleperhour.com/hourlie/provide-3-000-full-leng...

>Soon, everybody here will know the man, imagine being him and walking on the street.

This was an out of court settlement so he could have said no.

And Aaron could have just not kill himself.

Sorry. Maybe it was in poor taste to bring it up.

I guess my point is that something being "out of court settlement" doesn't mean you have as much choice as it looks to somebody not in that position.

I think the reason for the downvotes is, whether intentional or not, you are conflating civil settlements with criminal plea bargains. There is plenty of room to be complacent with one while being staunchly against the other.

"Hi, I'm from the same country as the guy - Czech Republic." So am I. Nobody cares.

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