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Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates
An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Warner Brothers UK is hiring college students with an IT background to participate in an internship that will pit them against pirates on the Web in an effort to crack down on illegal digital distribution. The intern will literally be on the front-lines of the epic battle against pirated content, ensnaring users in incriminating transactions, issuing takedown requests, and causing general frustration amongst the file-sharing population on the Internet."
I want some serious action to encourage the development of the completely anonymous protocols.
Keep pushing, studios.
I think I prefer this sort of activity rather than forcing ISPs to do their bidding for no cost to the copyright holder. Or intensive lobbying that hurts everyone. Yeah, it may be a foolish quest to combat copyright infringement, but at least this way of going about it makes some modicum of sense.
Why is this an issue? Warner Brothers does have a legal right to enforce their copyrights. While I would prefer they focus on those that are profiting from unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, they also have a right to issue take-down notices. What would be unethical would be: uploading copyrighted material and then suing anybody who downloads it. Clearly, if WB themselves are freely distributing it, then they are implicitly granting permission for it to be distributed freely.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
It's not a competition. What they should do is offer Spotify like service for movies all around the world, not just in US, and either ad-supported version or $10-$19 per month paid subscription with perks like PS3 and mobile streaming and so on. After Spotify came around 1.5 years ago people haven't had a need to pirate MP3's anymore. It's actually nicer to use than P2P - that's something that movie industry needs to have to combat piracy (hopefully Voddler will get there). When the service works good and is reasonably priced, you win a lot of customers.
Spotify is not available in most of the world. Only 6 countries and no linux client. I would rather just buy non-drmed music.
those would be the interns that end up posting information from these companies on wikileaks showing that they are doing illegal things... ah to the companies that think us geeks care about company loyalty... yeah you pay their cheques... and yeah, we can get cheques elsewhere
They are hypocrites who believe in copyright when it is good for them and not when it does not suit them.
But are they much worse than the major motion picture studios, which moved to Hollywood just to be out of range of Thomas Edison's patent goons?
Where are all the anti-anti-pirates?
On 4chan. May as well give them something productive to do.
Start by offering 700MB XVID downloads for about USD$5 from fast servers with fantastic bandwidth.
In the movie file, show one add for an upcoming movie, then show the credit card details and user account information for about 5 seconds. "this copy of $movie is licenced to $name $address $credit_card_number" . The customer will protect your movies with the same level of care as their card information, and will share it at their own risk or have to go to the hassle of editing the information out before putting it on p2p.
As parent said, only by competing with the product (p2p) will the movie companies win. And they have a chance to make some big money off that 'long tail'. Apply suitable methods to discourage sharing, and consumption will increase. Using this method, the movie industry would kill TV and make Billions.
Why does this remind me a lot of "war on drugs" that USA is presently still losing (as it escalates to neighboring countries as well.)
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
If the papers they sign state that they are responsible for their own actions, it would get WB out of any counter-lawsuits for thing done.
Curiously, this would leave the WB "employee" liable for any sharing of WB material that they participate in while attempting to entrap others. Let me think, how could that be useful to WB... I see, wait six months after you hire your tranche of stooges, fire and then sue them using the evidence they supplied (thinking this was about others). Win the cases and then point to the stack of precedent you have amassed when you go after future cases. Sweet ;)
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
> Information is free. Period.
By your argument, how then is anyone ever to be compensated for work that is anything other than physical labor?
Invent the cure for the common cold -- information -- free (sorry, no paycheck)
Run the plant that makes the pill -- physical product -- get paid
Does your "free information" model include a method to financially support those with the capability to advance medicine, science and the arts? Or were you planning on letting them all stay at your place? Last time I checked, patrons were few and far between, at least in the US.
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If I give you an apple and you give me an apple we both have one apple.
If I share my information with you and you share your information with me we both have more information.
I guess nobody really taught us the difference between apples and oranges.
What is funny for me is that I have never ever seen anything from that show.
The only way I know that it is from some Rocky and Bullwinkle thing is because of all the references to that show from other american media over all the years.
This is the sig that says NI (again)