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Students will open and maintain accounts on torrent sites, hang around forums and IRC channels, maintain and develop link-scanning bots, and issue take-down notices for infringing material. They will also be expected to make "trap purchases," in order to gather intelligence on various filesharing enterprises. That sounds exciting!
Don't get me wrong; I do support copyrights, and I think it is actually an important topic. Artists should get paid for their work -- there is no argument about it. However, this is not the way. If it's made easier for people to buy this content (as opposed to the effort involved in copying it), I think that they will buy.
Warner Bros. recruiting students for anti-piracy internship originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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