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Isn't this what rackspace, megaupload and all the other bazillion filesharing service are doing? They seem to be doing quite all right financially...

Interesting that a similar comment was made by patio11 and there was intelligent discussion about it.

My guess is that the downvotes are from people objecting to the use of the word "steal" to describe piracy.

The pirated content portion of his proposal is a red herring.