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Film Industry's Latest Search Engine Draws Traffic With 'Pirate' Keywords' (torrentfreak.com)
A new search engine launched by the Dutch film industry is targeting 'pirates' specifically, reports TorrentFreak. Every movie or TV-show page lists legal viewing options but also includes pirate keywords and descriptions, presumably to draw search traffic. "Don't Wrestle With Nasty Torrents. Ignore the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story torrent," the site advises. From a report: Like other "legal" search engines, the site returns a number of options where people can watch the movies or TV-shows they search for. However, those who scroll down long enough will notice that each page has a targeted message for pirates as well. The descriptions come in a few variations but all mention prominent keywords such as "torrents" and reference "illegal downloading" and unauthorized streaming.
Then treat them that way. What an absolutely wonderful way to build their loyalty!
Seems like fool's gold (aka pirate). There's already a torrent of junk when it comes to any sort of search, but that's to be expected from something free. Maybe if they had kept their tactics on the download, they wouldn't have to deal with this streaming pile of nonsense.
I love watching the old Marx brothers stuff. Groucho was my favorite.
Why would the Dutch film industry care if people are pirating films made in Hollywood? What is in it for them?
The Curse of the Black Pearl
Dead Man's Chest
At World's End
On Stranger Tides
Dead Men Tell No Tales
So run of the mill Search Engine Optimization, in other words.
eliminating domains from a search by preceeding the domain name with a - still works. Was there some way in the past to make that global and/or persistent?
file:
because.moe is a search site for anime streams that links directly to the legal stream options instead of serving as a pointless exercise in crying about pirates without helping either the movie companies or the consumers.
Maybe film.nl should try being useful instead of pointlessly patronizing, then people might use it.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
I'm struggling to see how. Legitimate consumers presumably aren't searching using those keywords.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
It's a honey pot using SEO. Only uneducated kids would ever fall victim to such a thing. The real sources of this sort of thing are not advertised on search engines and never have been.
We'll make great pets
So are they going to have search pages for films where a legal streaming option is actually not available?
One nice thing about classic brick-and-mortar rental stores was it was easier to get older titles (and they were cheap-cheap to rent). The back catalog on online streaming seems to not reach so far back. Rather ironic in a form of media that is so much better suited to chasing "the long tail" due to the low cost of disk storage for a streaming title.
The problem continues to be Hollywood wanting a licensing fee just for making the title available, where if they were willing to take a purely per-view fee, they would see more revenue. VOD services like Amazon could leave the title up for a $0.99 rental fee forever then.
Of course they are. They watch a movie in the theater then pirate a copy for home viewing or search for a copy of a movie they own because they want a high quality encode from someone who knows what they are doing. A few might be looking for copies of movies that just aren't worth watching in the theater while saving the theater for content that is actually best viewed that way (basically audio and visual effect intensive films). Some are just trying to get around hdcp nonsense so they can utilize their 4k devices.
Almost all pirates are legitimate consumers trying to get around hassles imposed by the industry. The industry wants to limit the amount of content you enjoy, how soon you can enjoy it, and how you can enjoy it. When those limitations don't get in the way people still pay for content.
Instructions (if you insist in using google):
1) Open https://www.google.com/advanced_search
2) Find all the words: "torrent" or "free"
3) None of these words: "pay" "credit card" "illegal"
problem solved :)
The industry isn't interested because they don't want to maximize legal consumption and convenience they want to give you as little as possible for as much as possible so there is room to make a guy who has more money pay more money.
Honestly, I think the MPAA should band together and offer it's own streaming service. New movies hit it as soon as the theater and start at theater prices for 24hr rentals, an algorithm monitors the purchase rate over time and automatically reduces pricing with some hard time based cut offs. About the time the movie would hit Blu-ray it finally falls into a Netflix style subscription bucket except this one has all the movies and nothing ever goes away and content is always distributed with all the latest capabilities right from the get go like 4k, 3D, etc. Subscription proceeds are distributed according to views. That lets the movie industry maximize revenue, cut out all the middlemen except their own collective trade organization, and provides dramatically more convenience to the consumer.
Arrrr !!! Shiver me timbers matey!! Where's the RUM?
Eh, just skip down to the DMCA takedown part... pretty sure it contains all the good links, anyway.
That's... quite an assumption.
As price falls, consumption rises. There comes a point where the product of price and units sold is maximal, and hollywood, like every other industry, devotes a great deal of money and expertise to trying to determine where this optimal price lies. No easy task, as it varies between regions and across time.
yes, google allowed you to have a list of up to 500 domains that would not appear in search results, called Manage Blocked Sites", discontinued in early 2013
There's no such thing. Although the local village theatre occasionally finds itself with enough subsidy for a camera...
If you are going to charge someone with murder, theft, rape and kidnapping on the high seas, call them 'Pirates'.
If you want to have a rational conversation about copyright infringement, don't frame the argument in favor of the MPAA and RIAA.
Specifically legal DRM-free files. I'll be all over them. My GoG library can attest to that.
*crickets*
"Don't Wrestle With Nasty Torrents. Ignore the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story torrent,"
True enough, they're all shit. But they DO say that there are legal alternatives to stream this - which is also bullshit.
But not an entirely unjustified one. Remember this comic from a few years ago?
That said, there's another issue involved: Media is too expensive for the amount people want to consume. If you watch one movie each Saturday, and assuming a $40 price tag per movie because you like to watch relatively new releases, you're talking about $160 per month or $2080 per year. Most people watch a hell of a lot more than one movie a week.
Netflix is great for this -- you pay one flat monthly fee and you can get as much content as you can handle. Perfect! They were on their way to becoming the iTunes for video.
Except somewhere along the way, competition got in the mix. Now I'm all for competition usually, but of course this isn't real competition like you get selling apples -- this is exclusive competition.
So if you want to watch Orange is the New Black you have to have a Netflix account because nobody else offers that show, and if you want to watch Game of Thrones you need an HBO account because nobody else offers that show, and if you want to watch something else you need a third and a fourth and a 10th account, each one of which is costing you $10-20/mo and suddenly we're back to the multiple thousands of dollars per year and people can't afford it again.
So there's lots of situations where people might buy the media you're offering if you provide them with a reasonably-priced and convenient legitimate alternative, but they'll still be trying to pirate the one after that because their budget doesn't stretch nearly as far as their appetite. Unfortunately the movie industry likes to play the all-or-nothing game rather than just trying to get as much as you can afford to pay them and calling it good enough.
Oh and no, "go outside and play with your wheel and stick" isn't really a suitable alternative in this day and age. "Going out" usually ends up involving food or drinks or shopping or a theater movie or something else that costs even more -- people stay in and watch Netflix because its already the cheaper form of entertainment!
I'm not that is really the case for movies. People aren't afraid they'll go away they are just impatient and want what they want now rather than later.
"Not having to wait" is definitely worth something to most people. How much it is worth probably dependent on how large a sum needs to be before it is significant to you and that mostly depends on how much you have. The scheme I proposed above lets the billionaire satisfy his impulse to have the movie before everyone else but also gives the middle class their chance to get the movie slightly sooner for an extra couple bucks.
The beauty (for them) is that pretty much everyone would at least subscribe to the all you can eat streaming buffet with every movie ever released by any MPAA studio so even you consumed nothing this month they'd still get money from you.
Yeah, couldn't agree more. The promise of Netflix was that, like their movie rental business, you'd have access to virtually every movie, (and TV show), ever made, but instead of waiting for a DVD to come through the mail, streamed instantly over the internet. But, oh no, the studios would not allow that! They seemed content to spend their time whining about "piracy". Meanwhile, the people found a way around their intransigence.
I have Netflix, and finally, after many months of waiting, HBO-Go for PS4. But I'm not going to pay for every streaming app out there so I can get that one show they each have. It's annoying enough to have to switch between three apps, (Netflix, HBO-Go, and Plex). Whatever HBO and Netflix don't have, I am happy to torrent. Also, good on Netflix for saying "fuck 'em" and producing their own content.
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