[tomjen3]

Indeed.

Don't look at torrents. Go look at many of the download services rapidshare.com, megaupload.com, etc. They all have one thing in common: they charge money.

This means that there is a segment of people out there who are willing to pay, but whoes needs are for one reason or another are not met under the current system.

If you want to grow the market try to capture them.

[w1ntermute]

Of course, all these sites are charging for is taking away the inconvenience of the free download option. If you use JDownloader[0] and don't want to see something right away, you can use these sites just as well without paying them a single cent. The most significant exception are the other sites, such as HotFile, which use ReCAPTCHA, making JDownloader much less useful.

0: http://jdownloader.org/