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Trump Promises Copyright Crackdown As DoJ Takes Aim At Streaming Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Yesterday, a panel discussion on the challenges associated with piracy from streaming media boxes took place on Capitol Hill. Hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), "Unboxing the Piracy Threat of Streaming Media Boxes" (video) went ahead with some big name speakers in attendance, not least Neil Fried, Senior Vice President, Federal Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs at the MPAA. ITIF and various industry groups tweeted many interesting comments throughout the event. Kevin Madigan from Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property told the panel that torrent-based content "is becoming obsolete" in an on-demand digital environment that's switching to streaming-based piracy. "There's a criminal enterprise going on here that's stealing content and making a profit," Fried told those in attendance. "The piracy activity out there is bad, it's hurting a lot of economic activity & creators aren't being compensated for their work," he added.
And then, of course, we come to President Trump. Not usually that vocal on matters of intellectual property and piracy, yesterday -- perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not -- he suddenly delivered one of his "something is coming" tweets. "The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft," Trump tweeted. "We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!" Given Trump's tendency to focus on problems overseas causing issues for companies back home, a comment by Kevin Madigan during the panel yesterday immediately comes to mind. "To combat piracy abroad, USTR needs to work with the creative industries to improve enforcement and target the source of pirated material," Madigan said.
And then, of course, we come to President Trump. Not usually that vocal on matters of intellectual property and piracy, yesterday -- perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not -- he suddenly delivered one of his "something is coming" tweets. "The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft," Trump tweeted. "We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!" Given Trump's tendency to focus on problems overseas causing issues for companies back home, a comment by Kevin Madigan during the panel yesterday immediately comes to mind. "To combat piracy abroad, USTR needs to work with the creative industries to improve enforcement and target the source of pirated material," Madigan said.
Isn't the source... the movie/TV industry?
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When I drink a lot of rum, I become a streaming pirate.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Lets let the wars drag on for decades, but we need to take a stand now for copyright!
Let's be honest, regardless of the infinite greed of publishers and extreme desire on their part for extreme poseur status, there is no fucking money left in the economy to pay for their fucking delusions, it's called austerity morons, get fucking used to it. Right now their content and the psuedo celebrities are reaching all time lows in popularity mainly because of the collapse of the saturation advertising model, simply too many venues for advertising for too many products and dilution to insignificance for ads across all platforms. Austerity, people will not starve themselves to buy shitty content, the pseudo celebrities just look like any other egoistic blogger, in fact the pseudo celebrities are forced to act like typical youtubers ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (don't bother watching it through just get an idea of the content) because they and their message have become insignificant except for the most gullible believers.
So they crap on about copying content, as people go hungry, as the middle class is crapped on (the people with the real power), as the poorest a living on the streets, the insanity of insatiable greed, never ever having enough, not matter how many that greed kills.
Don't expect to sell high priced content to hungry people and expect those hungry people to hate egoistic poseur pseudo celebrities rubbing the poverty of the poor into the face of the poor, starve fuckers, I need my private jet.
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Start redistributing 99% or the worlds wealth and people may feel they have a bit left to give back.
I don't think anyone feels that bad about not giving more of their cash to some entitled 1%ers.
Until I'm a 1%er, fuck 'em all.
I'm really glad Trump is cracking down on himself because for a while there he seemed caviller and acted with a near psychotic neglect of personal culpability.
Last time I bumped into copyright violating streaming was with Winamp years ago. The few rotating episodes shown at 240p or 320p convinced me to purchase boxed set of the series for all seasons. So there, streaming free episodes internationally is efficient marketing if the series has a good enough story.
Yet the film and other entertainment industries keep posting record years in terms of profits. Piracy has been proven not only not to hurt, but help sales of video games.
If it can be played it can be copied, they're completely unequipped to deal with piracy, even with the net neutrality repeal in effect.
"As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows that it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia—I don't, maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?
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We came in with the Internet. We came up with the Internet. And I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS.
So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers. It’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester. And certainly cyber is one of them."
- Guess who
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You mean they will stop going after the guys who downloaded a song or movie and instead attack the ones who are uploading/hosting the servers who provided those downloads in the first place? What's this common sense from a republican government? Blasphemy.
It's easy to feel generous and visionary with someone else's property, but copyright infringement happens to be against the law. And it should be against the law, because anyone with access to PC and an Internet connection has world class tools for making, editing, distributing, and collaborating on all sorts of art and literature. They shouldn't be stealing or plagiarizing the work of someone else, who expects to be paid.
Are those lines from an old Adam Sandler movie??
nerds, Trump is not your friend. He was a jock for Pete's sake. He was the guy that gave you wedgies and beat the shit out of you while his friends held you down.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) had strong intellectual property protections that the US fought hard to get into the agreement. Essentially it would have forced all partner countries to enforce US intellectual property rights (regardless of their own laws). Trump pulled the plug on it and the remaining TPP members stripped out all the US copyright demands and ratified the TPP without the US. Now Trump's complaining the US's copyright laws aren't being respected after he was the one that canceled the deal to strengthen them?
You lost me at "Trump Promises..."
He promised that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. And that that pipeline would be built with American steel. And that he'd be too busy working to have time to go golfing.
Trump's promises might be worth a dollar, but only if he writes them on a dollar bill.
and they are very, very vocal about it, but somehow he loves them, and their bosses in particular. Strange huh? Wonder what is going on there, but there is more going on than meets the eye. Perhaps it's just Copyright Industry lobbyists somehow being handed the reins?
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
It's another hard turn to the reich, and the conservative voters are going for it. American liberalism is a pure fantasy. They can't even form a viable political party without selling out like the rest, just to mark a win.
Don't expect to sell high priced content to hungry people
Obviously that all is true. But it doesn't change the fact that someone else taking that content and making even a small amount of money form it is wrong.
I don't really begrudge the people just torrenting movies or whatever. But if you are buying bootleg DVD's, or streaming from a site that has ads - someone is making money of that in a way that is not deserved, and is simply wrong...
There is also the aspect of yet another way of breaking the law becoming socially acceptable, which weakens all laws. I agree the costs should come way down for media - but in a way have they not? Yes renting a movie is pretty expensive. But you can also subscribe to Starz or HBO for just $10/month now and get scores of movies, or subscribe to Netflix and get a ton of content.
The rest of it will naturally follow as really expensive media gets squeezed to go to lower prices. But that does not justify other people making some amount of money from it, does not mean that can continue to happen without consequence.
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He doesn't know what it means. He just has some lobbyists in his office whining about unfairness.
Don't think he knows what he's doing. He doesn't.
He really, really, doesn't know what he is doing. Really, he has no idea.
So don't complain about it. Or him. You have things you need to do. Do them. Your "president" isn't there. Do it yourself.
Then maybe he will do something about the Russian hacking the US election happening this year.
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Not so large they would be just fine.
Over charging me for your greed will never be a winning formula long term.
The day you are all out of business the better.
189.00 for tv and cable you should be giving me blow jobs to get anything at all in front of me by any means.
There's a criminal enterprise going on here that's stealing content and making a profit,"
It's called "Hollywood".
a lot of economic activity & creators aren't being compensated for their work
It's called "Hollywood Accounting".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
IP law is one of the greatest destroyers of civilization, and has hindered innumerable innovations and creative outlets.
But its coming to an end. Decentralization, blockchain, and mass innovation is chipping away.
In the meantime, expect the escalation of the copyright war to push more people into VPNs and other hardened anonymization technologies. Hollywood can't win this.
...is illegally copying the Seal of the President of the United States onto anything he can in order to make a quick buck. (Mugs, golf courses etc.)
Torrents and Usenet and IRC aren't being used at all for piracy anymore, they're completely dead technologies which no one is even thinking about using anymore. Not worth spending any time at all going after them. Just go all-in against illegal streaming, which is at least 100% of all piracy now and in the future.
Eat the rich.
Our entire judicial system was founded and designed based on a number of primary intrisic ethical imperative s. One of which is that better for 10 guilty men to go free then for one innocent man to suffer. Is it in the public interest to allocate Real World Resources that are needed more elsewhere, to persecute people who do not pose a personal danger to anyone. Intellectual property is not compatible with the nature of information. It is unenforceable. Unnatural, a tremendous drain on national resources. It absolutely curtails innovation. It prevents ability share information to build and improve on the efforts of others . It Is a failed business concept kept afloat by thug tactics and forced cooperation put in play by compromised government officials
void US copyrights as punishment for the new tariffs.
"There's a criminal enterprise going on here that's stealing content and making a profit,"
Yes, there is, some might say it is the content providers who do not respect the deal of copyright except when it suits them.
This does not justify anybody stealing their stuff, but if there is any political discussion on copyright, it needs to address both sides of the discussion.
Availability in an ever changing market, EULA's limiting first sale rights, and excessively extended terms come to mind.
As a practical matter, widespread consumer compliance with the copyright regs isn't going to work unless there is a widespread feeling that the system is fair and reasonable.
Does anyone doubt that Trump has copyright-violating material on nearly every digital device he owns?
Or that his companies share copyright-violating materials?
Or that he retweets and promotes copyright-violating materials?
Or that his employees stream copyright-violating materials using his company's hardware on company time?
Etc.
Screaming pirates, now that's another story...
Remove net neutrality. Packet sniff and de-prioritze anything that doesn't toss a rent back to the ISP. Pirate streams are not on the ISP whitelist. Profit !!!
It's not because of piracy that artist are not getting paid what they are due it's because big company put the money in their poket. Stop giving yourself gross salary and pay them and you wont see an artist complain. Artist are happy when their work is being watched (or listened or enjoyed) as long as they can make a decent living... and since your movies are doing million and hunderd of millions of $ then the problem is not in the piracy it's where you put that profit. Stop giving the big shot their indecent pay and stop paying actors indecent pay and you'll have more than enough to pay everyone a very decent ammount. The problem is in the division of profit not the making a profit part. The movies that dont make profit are the same thing, except it might also be because they sucked.
So nobody agrees that enforcing the law is a good thing? What happened to changing the laws if you don't like them? Sad state of the world.
what happened to changing the laws if you don't like them?
The people most in favor of changing the laws are the people least capable of it, since the current laws favor large corporations with armies of lawyers willing to bleed out any opposition by legal attrition. And the elected representatives are either in the pockets of said corporations and will not oppose them, or are moral guardians too obsessed with the existence of the content to defend its freedom and will not oppose the laws in place.
So yeah, invest in NordVPN, since they're about to see a massive uptick in users.
The entertainment industry has been called "Recession Proof" because they don't take the same hits everybody else does when one comes along. "Man cannot live by bread alone" as they say. People won't usually starve themselves (a few will, e.g. "Whales") but you'd be surprised what they'll put up with for a little relief from their bleak existences.
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Some people who have been born after the phrase "Intellectual Property" was coined have already been indoctrinated. They can't conceive that ideas aren't fundamentally property, but, rather, intellectual property, which is a societal construct. Ideas aren't really property. Calling them that is supposed to invoke a moral response from the gullible. People are extremely gullible, and the new generation does not understand Intellectual Property. They know that they must obey their masters alright, though.
to that end property is also a societal concept. objectively there is posession, but property is a subjective concept and not at all real outside agreement to believe and participate in the concept.