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Hollywood Escalates "DVD Ripping" Case To International Incident (torrentfreak.com)
A group of Hollywood studios and technology partners have asked the U.S. Government to assist in solving a long-running court battle against the Antique based software company SlySoft. Despite an earlier conviction SlySoft continues to offer its DVD and BluRay ripping tools. To progress the matter, rightsholders have asked the U.S. to place Antigua on the Priority Watch List. "Circumvention through programs such as SlySoft's AnyDVD HD is a source for widespread, large-scale and commercial copyright infringement by users located in the United States, as well as Antigua & Barbuda, and many other countries," AACS writes (pdf).
Yes and hence the ridiculous provisions in the TPP (as if a secret international treaty wasnt creepy enough)
For example,
"The TPP requires that signatories hold civilly liable any person who “circumvents without authority any effective technological measure that controls access to a protected work,”[115] or otherwise makes available devices or products or service that are intended to circumvent[116] or have only limited commercial purpose other than to circumvent[117] or are primarily designed to circumvent.[118] There is no requirement that the infringing party be aware of their infringement in order to be held civilly liable (no knowledge requirement). The TPP requires that signatories provide for criminal penalties for persons who engage in these activities and are found “to have engaged willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.”[119]
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's signed but not yet ratified. It's only 16 countries or so not the whole world.
Yet.
Personally, I've never actually used my copy of AnyDVD to pirate anything. I've used it to rip my legally purchased copies of DVDs and Blurays to my media server. I'm not doing anything wrong by using the content I bought and paid for how I wish. I'm sure they'd likely disagree, but they can piss off.
Nowadays, I actually use streaming services more often than not, since they're convenient and reasonably priced. Do you know what makes me want to actually switch to pirated content instead?
1) Insane prices for watching previous seasons of a show (either rentals or purchase), when Hulu is only showing the latest season.
2) The bright, distracting network logo Hulu pastes in the corner of the picture for the entire duration of the show.
Can you imagine going to a movie theater and being subjected to an image of the movie company's logo in the corner of the screen for the duration of the show? Why does anyone believe this is acceptable for television? When the pirated content is superior to the paid-for content, that's not a good sign.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Copyright is worth more than oil right now.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Who bothers with DVDs anymore? Unless your tastes are way off the beaten track, everything you might want is available for streaming anyway.
The BBC has taken Dr. Who off Netfllx and Hulu in the USA. So far, they cannot do that with the physical discs I have.
Of course, I presume when you meant "available for streaming" you meant legal streaming.