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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.
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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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.
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Actual IP attorney