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Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates
An anonymous reader writes: The Internet Security Task Force, a group of businesses working to protect content creators and consumers from the negative effects of piracy, has called for an end to the Copyright Alert System, saying the anti-piracy initiative is not only ineffective but actually makes things worse. The group suggest that it be replaced with a new system based on Canada's Copyright Modernization Act. Mark Gill, ISTF chairman and President of member company Millennium films, says "We've always known the Copyright Alert System was ineffective, as it allows people to steal six movies from us before they get an educational leaflet. But now we have the data to prove that it's a sham." The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is set to expire early July.
I'm more concerned with the claim that The Expendables 3 has been viewed more than 60M times. Viewing crap movies like that causes far more damage to the public than any possible money lost by the studios.
as it allows people to steal six movies from us
Holy crap, you mean all this time the pirates could have actually been stealing movies and thus kept the rest of the world from ever seeing them? I guess we're lucky they only made copies.
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What does the leaflet say? Our profit is more important than your freedom to communicate?
Every time I see calls for harsh anti-piracy initiatives, I picture what would happen if equally harsh rules were put in place for some of the dirty IP tricks or outright theft MPAA members engage in. "Oh, your studio got caught taking a copyrighted screenplay submission, rejecting it, then handing it over to one of your own people again? Sorry, your access to distribution has been cut off and you will not be able to produce movies anymore"
From TFA:
Under CCMA there is no limit on the number of notifications that must legally be forwarded to ‘offending’ ISP customers, which has led to a 69.6% reduction in infringements at Bell Canada, with Rogers, TekSavvy, Telus and Shaw all reporting notable reductions in piracy (or, theoretically, greater uptake of VPNs).
I'm willing to bet after the first notification, people just move to a VPN service to hide behind... Fix the inaccessibility issues involving movie and show availability, and I think you'll see piracy drop a lot faster than trying to punish people. People really just don't care, they just want their movie or show, so make it accessible and affordable. Market is just waiting on you guys to fix the issues IMHO.
Some people also don't want to go to a theater with a bunch of other people and pay astronomical prices for a bag of popcorn. On the other hand, some people really like that theater experience. So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie with the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
stopped reading there.
look, don't lie to me that you are helping ME, a consumer.
you look stupid when you lie. and you guys do such a really bad job of lying, too.
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High speed internet is a relatively new thing. I think it's safe to say that there was barely any online movie piracy twenty or thirty years ago. Were movie tickets $3 back then (or really $1.95 / $1.38, when we adjust for inflation)?
taken without permission. The last 3 words in the previous sentence define theft.
No, they don't. Theft is taking scarce good without permission. You can keep using their newspeak if you want though.
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Wait, is this guy claiming 20% of the US population pirated Expendables 3?
And we're supposed to take anything else he says seriously?
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
Since "good" refers to something physical, I see you've decided to respond with the predicted "it's not tangible, so therefore it doesn't count" excuse.
This completely ignores the fact that things do not have to be tangible to be considered to have a measurable value. Your time, for example, is worth money both to yourself and your employer.
Nobody is saying that there's no value in copyright violations. What they are saying is that it is not theft. I like the car analogy for this one:
See the difference? And remember that it was you who said it makes no difference as to whether the things are tangible or not.
Awwwww, someone's panties are in a bunch because every single human on the planet obviously doesn't understand things on the higher level that they do. What, are your preferred music artists too obscure for the rest of us? Go tighten that scarf around your neck a bit more, if you wouldn't mind. I don't think the human race would miss you very much.
Hey, kid, maybe some people like to watch mindless action movies where things explode. Viewing habits are NOT indicative of mental capacity. Ever heard of suspending disbelief? Try it sometime.
So yes... it is theft. Suggesting that it isn't is just a specious rationalization used by people who don't want to feel guilty about it.
And by judges preventing improper inflaming of juries.