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Netflix, Amazon, and Major Studios Try To Shut Down $20-Per-Month TV Service (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Netflix, Amazon, and the major film studios have once again joined forces to sue the maker of a TV service and hardware device, alleging that the products are designed to illegally stream copyrighted videos. The lawsuit was filed against the company behind Set TV, which sells a $20-per-month TV service with more than 500 channels.
"Defendants market and sell subscriptions to 'Setvnow,' a software application that Defendants urge their customers to use as a tool for the mass infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures and television shows," the complaint says. Besides Netflix and Amazon, the plaintiffs are Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. The complaint was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The companies are asking for permanent injunctions to prevent further distribution of Set TV software and devices, the impoundment of Set TV devices, and for damages including the defendants' profits.
"Defendants market and sell subscriptions to 'Setvnow,' a software application that Defendants urge their customers to use as a tool for the mass infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures and television shows," the complaint says. Besides Netflix and Amazon, the plaintiffs are Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. The complaint was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The companies are asking for permanent injunctions to prevent further distribution of Set TV software and devices, the impoundment of Set TV devices, and for damages including the defendants' profits.
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Allow me to point it out to you, then. When you stop paying the content creators for their content, they will stop making it. This is why we can't have nice content.
Yeah but just think what would happen, in less then a week progressives(aka regressives) would be screaming about how all those old shows are racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. There would be whining and more screeching. Then the people with connections to media would start pushing the narrative that these companies support said sexism/racism/homophobia/etc, and you'd see the progressive-fringe press start pumping out stories. It would be amplified by more progressive sites.
Then mainstream media would then start publishing stories about "how there's a huge public backlash" against these old shows. Then they'd simply start pulling shows that were "problematic" "toxic" or "gross" but that wouldn't be good enough, and they'd likely fold and shut the entire thing down and you'd be back to where we are now.
Om, nomnomnom...
You (meaning Americans) can't have nice content because:
- Your commercial model for television doesn't favour making decent TV
- Your education system is so crap that most people don't appreciate any sort of intelligence on their TV sets
The likes of Netflix and Amazon somewhat buck this trend because they work globally, and their business model requires they have some "wow factor" to get people to try their services, so have to have some quality content to do so.
Here in the UK, the BBC (with all its faults) provides a "free" service which at any time of day is pretty decent quality. It's mostly intelligent, well produced content with some sort of positive benefit to it (ie. not 'race to the bottom' game shows and reality TV). This forces other channels to have some semblance of quality, which is how come we've got a small number of good quality broadcasters (versus vast swathes of absolute shit that other countries endure).
Back on topic - this thing is yet another 'free streams' software/hardware solution like so many others. As much as I dislike most of "big media", they've got a point on this one, and will most likely prevail.
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
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You (meaning Americans) can't have nice content
A billion+ people around the world, in 100+ countries, would beg to disagree.
But hey, the important thing here is that you get to feel superior to those ignorant rednecks and show the world how cultured and refined you are. Who cares what the help thinks, as long as they bring the tea and biscuits when you ring your bell.
Even if that were a problem, stealing content does nothing to fix it. Try again.
Wrong.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
Burn it down.
The legal and political systems have been suborned by their lobbying and outright bribery so there is no relief possible by legal means.
That just leaves destroying them in the most efficient means possible. Kill their ability to sustain their business. Only once their profits have been destroyed and their money can no longer can buy them legal/political protection can justice be served.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
And then the "alternative" media
But here's the funny thing, I can look at one and chuckle over the crazy. At the other, I can see the media lining up to defend it and the politicians and media personalities lining up to preach and tell everyone "why removing this stuff is a good idea." The latter has happened repeatedly over the last 5 years.
Om, nomnomnom...
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
So, if we keep raiding your bank account, that will make things better for you? Sounds like a good plan.
According to your plan above ALL content makers should be bankrupt, so we actually will only have the crap that someone makes for their YouTube channel, but only if they aren't making TOO much profit on it, at that point then their stuff should be stolen and distributed in such a way as to not make them any money.
Totally sounds reasonable.
You do realize, that there is no better, EVER, if there are no content makers, and nobody wants to be one because there is no motivation to do so, so congrats, you've destroyed an industry. What's next?
Except for musicians. No one has paid musicians correctly for decades and the music keeps flowing.
And Poets. Poets get nothing no matter how you slice it.
Oh, and most script writers.
And a lot of authors. They hardly ever get paid what they're worth.
Comet o think of it the only people who do get paid are producers of television and movies. Strange.