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P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com)
From a report: In recent years Hollywood and other entertainment sources have focused their enforcement efforts on pirate streaming sites and services. According to several reports, streaming sites get more traffic than their P2P counterparts, with the latter being almost exclusively BitTorrent related. While the rise of online streaming sites can't be denied, a new research report from anti-piracy outfit Irdeto shows that P2P remains very relevant. In fact, it's still the dominant piracy tool in many countries. Irdeto researched site traffic data provided by an unnamed web analytics partner. The sample covers web traffic to 962 piracy sites in 19 countries where P2P was most used. This makes it possible to see how P2P site visits compare to those of pirate streaming sites.
Is this really surprising? There's still tons of software out there that makers no longer support or distribute, tons of TV shows that Netflix doesn't stock. As fragmentation of the online streaming market grows (Disney Online) Expect piracy to grow back in as people's $10/month subscriptions fail to deliver them the content they want and rather than pay $80+ for 8+ different streaming services they just go back to piracy.
I really wish people would get ths straight.
"Copyright piracy" is a legal term that has been around for about 150 years. Though some copyright owners (I'm looking at you, Disney) certainly want to make people think it means something else. That's why they call everything piracy.
But actually it refers to people who make unauthorized copies and distribute them, usually for personal gain (like profit).
In other words, "piracy" basically means people who make copies and sell them.
Piracy is a crime. But just downloading -- if that's all you're doing -- is NOT piracy, and is not a crime. It is a civil violation, comparable to making a personal copy of a videotape.
People who upload videos to torrent sites might be pirates -- if they do it for some kind of personal gain -- but not people who just download.
Having said that: many (but not all) torrent programs force you to upload at the same time you are downloading. Technically, that might be considered piracy in some cases, but usually isn't. It's a pretty damned hard case to make in court.
Also, there does exist software that does not force you to upload when you download. Though you might have to look hard to find it.
Neither real copyright piracy (which consists of making unauthorized copies and selling them), nor downloading, are "theft".
Copyright violations are not theft. When you steal something, you deprive the owner of the presence or use of that thing.
E.g., if you stole my TV, I would no longer have it and not be able to use it.
When you copy a videotape or CD or DVD, you don't deprive either the copyright holder, or the person who owned the original you copied, of anything. Anything at all.
Further, multiple studies have shown that copying nearly always occurs in situations in which there would not have been a sale anyway. (I.e., person does not have the money to buy the CD, or a movie ticket.)
So usually, it isn't even depriving the copyright holder of any theoretical profit.
Copyright violations are NOT "theft". It's a completely different area of the law.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Here is a (hex) number:
A9C120EDFD186901C9DBD0F660
It is ALSO a copyrighted program (*) since I just wrote it.
1. Do you steal a number??? Hint. YOU CAN'T and don't since I STILL have it if you "steal" it.
2. If you copy that program you have committed piracy (since I never game permission for you to use it.) So copying numbers are now illegal ???
Yes, according to current idiotic, archaic, law. It is called "Copyright Infringement"
It doesn't matter if numbers represent data such as audio, video, text, etc.
Saying it is illegal to copy a number is still stupid.
(*) It a 6502 program (*) that prints the letters A-Z on an Apple ][.
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Only children censor
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.
Are you drunk or high or something?
"Copyright piracy" is a legal term
No. Never has been.
In other words, "piracy" basically means people who make copies and sell them.
Bullshit. It's been known as "pirate copying" and "pirate copies" since we were trading floppies in the school yard 30 years ago, obviously completely non-commercial. You just made up your own terms, your own definitions and is going on a rant because nobody gets it "right" even though you're the one trying to redefine everything.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Your program does not meet the criteria to be copyrightable. This is what you get when slashdoters try to do law...
Uncopyrightable procedure, process, system, or method of operation.
Specifically, in this instance, something covered by merger. There are no expressive elements to the program. It is merely the simplest, most mechanical way of getting a 6502 CPU to produce that entirely non-expressive output.
Signed,
Actual IP attorney
You can't own anything anymore. You can only purchase access to view/listen/use it through some service... services aren't always available, and even when they are, the internet isn't always available, and even when it is, your hardware might not be up to snuff.
With my personal collection, barring some out-of-left-field tech issue, I know it's going to work every time and be right there where I want it.
With online services, the price might increase, there might be updates or patches that force you to cough up personal information.
It's like, no... I just want to give you money, and then you give me a product, and we part ways. Not, I give you money, and then you keep spying on me and sending me ads and essentially "following" through the cloud.
Wow this rant went all over the place, but seriously, for all it's advantages, I'm fed up with streaming anything.
Actually, nope.
Here in my country, east of the Iron Courtain, Netflix is 7 bucks a month, cheapest tier. Tidal is 5 bucks a month. Same with Spotify.
They're not too expensive.
Geolocking does exist as a matter of fact, and it's one of the main reasons piracy still exists.
We (my people) have been treated a second class people for far too long , and we won't have it anymore. So when Netflix comes and says "you can't have this content that others do because $bullshit_reason*", we don't like it, and stop using it.
*$bullshit_reason could be, for example, a certain movie or TV series had their broadcasting rights sold to some asshole local company which sits on them trying to boost prices, or to an actual broadcaster which is only interested in maximizing profit. This results in many, if not most good movies or TV series being unavailable in my country. Anecdotal evidence: 10 of my top 10 preferred moviesw ere unavailable on netflix for my country (or at all!) due to broadcasting rights or movie owner not wanting to sell rights to Netflix. Hulu isn't available in my country, at all. Tidal has a "hip-hop problem", pushing their own music agenda despite the fact that I am a metalhead and for months I have only listened to metal on their platform. Yet, every fucking time I open Tidal, the main page and all their recommendation revolve around "JayZ's Playlist" and "Nicki Minaj" and other crap I simply DO NOT WANT. I perceive that behavior as being disrespectful - so I cancelled my subscription.
The pirate alternative: Torrent websites (private trackers):
- have a much wider selection of content
- have HIGH QUALITY content (Blu-Ray, 4K, etc)
- Are very fast (5-10 minutes) to download pretty much anything (local peers abound)
- Don't push their own agenda
- Have most content available IMMEDIATELY after release (especially music and TV series; for movies you generally need to wait a month or so for highest quality)
- Have a large variety of good subtitles in a myriad languages, readily attached to movies and series
- Do carry obscure and "rare" content (which I can't legally buy, stream or rent from anywhere)
I am all for legal methods of consuming content, and I am ready to pay for it. But when, for example, the FIFA World Cup 2018 took place this summer, I was unable to find an easy way to legally livestream matches. I was ready to pay-per-view or subscribe to bundles, but none were available for my country. The official broadcaster for my country had horrible service, thir website was down or locking up most of the time, it was unusable. And there was no alternative... except watching pirate livestreams which worked perfectly.
Life finds a way... so does consuming media content in a timely manner.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
I wonder what data they used? TFA talks about P2P web traffic, but P2P does not use the web.
This is exactly the problem with content: People care mostly about convenience.
You know what caused the switch from Piratebay to Netflix? Convenience. Nobody gives a fuck about 10 bucks a month, what they care about is ease of use. Click it and it works. Netflix managed to be more convenient than TPB. That's all.
That's also the reason that certain content gets copied like crazy. Not even, but especially when prohibitive DRM is in place. You might notice that those always-online games are among those that get copied the most. Why? Convenience. If I buy a game that I then cannot play because the activation server is overloaded, tinker and toy for a few hours until I give up, download it from TPB and just play it.
Next time I omit the step that is of no use to me.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.