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" Top Cow president and chief operating officer Matt Hawkins has hit out against illegal comic downloads. In an interview with CBR, the exec condemned the practice as &amp;quot;stealing&amp;quot; and said that it hits small businesses harder than major corporations. &amp;quot;People that steal movies, books, comics and music online are going to keep stealing it regardless as long as they can get away with it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;There is a debate about how much of those would convert to real sales, but I don&amp;#039;t believe it would be much. &amp;quot;They think they are hurting the big corporations when who they are really hurting are small companies who can&amp;#039;t afford the hit. On a practical reality level, I get it and understand how we work through it with business solutions, but on a philosophical level, I see it as stealing.&amp;quot; Hawkins went on to call for a solution to the problem of digital comic piracy, suggesting that launching an industry equivalent of Netflix could be best way to tackle the issue. &amp;quot;Netflix streaming is the first thing to take a bite out of movie torrent downloading. Maybe we as an industry need something like that.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;gt; Read our latest comics news&amp;amp;gt; Image to take on Top Cow operations "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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