Yes there are private sites where you donate and receive no perks or influence and I'll gladly support such sites.
"and so your saying that paying for access is ok, but donating for a perk isnt."
Now you're just putting words in my mouth. No, paying for access or invites to BitTorrent sites isn't ok. But you're talking about newsgroups which isn't the same thing.
Donating for a perk isn't donating, it's a purchase. That isn't a presumption, it's a fact.
"then i cant see anything wrong with doing anything for a month just to try to keep the tracker ticking over and surviving for another month."
Here's a quote from an article I read recently regarding Sweden's biggest ongoing filesharing case.
"Of additional interest is that this case reflects other file-sharing situations around Europe as it wrestles over the legal status of non-commercial file-sharing cases. Currently, illegal file-sharing is treated as a civil law issue in most of Europe, (there are exceptions) but the pressure from organizations such as the IFPI suggests they would love to bring it into the criminal domain. A conviction in this case resulting in prison time and financial penalties opens up the possibility that police searches could be carried out in search of evidence against petty file-sharers, something which is forbidden at the moment."
As soon as sales are being made it's a commercial enterprise and the situation becomes many times worse. Pay2leech is adding fuel to that fire.
"but again, whatever i say here wont influence you in any way, as it looks you have already got your presumptions wether they are right or wrong."
Right back atcha.
@ersatzp, Whether or not filesharing is stealing is another matter entirely and a discussion for another thread.
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