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jpdoctor on Jan 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website ...

> How would Antigua measure $21 million of copyright?

I think the bigger question is: How would the US verify that only $21M of infringement occurred?

gburt on Jan 25, 2013 [–]

The current "standard" appears to be: connect to the Bittorrent swarm, see how many people are connected, multiply by $OBSCENE.

That's assuming this ends up peer to peer, I guess that's a bad assumption given that it will be government-sanctioned.

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