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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.
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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.
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.
By "film industry" they probably mean distributors and/or cinema operators.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
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.
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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.
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.
That's... quite an assumption.
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
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.