Oh no, now I will have to pay $50/mo to re-watch marvel movie 832 and an action movie where the main character has to go on a 2hr quest for revenge after someone shot their pet.
…I barely watch movies anymore, there’s not been a ton of great new stuff imo. I’m so sick of subscriptions, too.
Yup. I used to watch a lot of movies and TV shows, now I mostly play video games and read books. Movies and TV just aren’t that good.
They’re pretty much all the Journey Of The Hero anyways and that shit is 3000 years old.
Same. Been watching a lot of film noir actually. The third man, double indemnity, strangers on a train. What happened to story telling?
Yeah. I just use free streaming sites.
It really put things into perspective who the useful idiots are in society.
We’re surrounded by them.
Ugh Charles Rivkin has such a punch-able face.
Fuck that.
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LOL this should be done.
“/ConstitutionUSA.html”
Should be added.
Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider
Maybe they will actually geoblock…
I’ll use my VPN.
Imagine how much money the movie industry would have if it stopped wasting time and effort on the false idea that 1 download = 1 lost sale.
But remember, when it comes to doing a public good/service/education/etc, the government is perpetually broke and can afford nothing.
150M $? This sounds like with such money entire city’s Public Transport can run for 10 years. Without fees.
How about they start making good movies that are actually worth to go to cinema for instead of whatever they are doing
Yup, I go to movies when they look good. But movies are so expensive these days that the bar is raised enough that I rarely go. If you’re going to ask $10-15 for a single viewing, you need to make a really good movie.
I’m happy to spend £10 to watch a movie at the cinema, but I refuse to spend £10 AND have to buy the movie to watch it again. I will watch it then pirate it. I don’t think that’s such a big deal.
And adjust the fucking business model so that theatres can make money from people just buying tickets at reasonable prices and don’t have to try to gouge them at the concession stand or treat them like criminals for bringing their own food.
I’ve been to one movie in the theatre since the pandemic and the main thing it did was remind me that seeing movies in a theatre just wasn’t really worth it anymore.
Half a year later, additional categories are added for CSAM. And another year later for illegal copies and cracks. All the while some states openly missuse it against porn and abortion. We know that game already!
But did you even think of the children?
Sounds like you just want to hurt those precious little ones.
How dare you!!! /s
Basically demands lawmakers for ISPs implement censorship tools.
“They are deying us our Corporate Right to Profit!!!”
Piracy does not hurt revenue and, in fact, may actually help it:
https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact.html
I have found and become a big fan of tv shows that I would have never had the chance to see because of piracy, one of my favourite shows ‘Corner Gas’ never once aired in my home country. Thank you piracy for helping me find good entertainment.
“It wasn’t willy-nilly… it was at crows.”
Never thought a single non-canadian would have even heard of Corner Gas lol
I absolutely love it, it’s the perfect show in my opinion, I’m so glad I stumbled across it.
I was sold on it by the first episode entirely because of Oscar, he kills me with every line.
Another non-Canadian who found the show by happenstance and think it’s great! Also watched the animated seasons when they came out (although not quite the same).
We don’t speak about the animated series here
I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.
I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I’d also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.
Because it’s easier for them to blame others than admit they fucked up
I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem.
It doesn’t have to be rational “profit-maximization”. Look at comments in threads that pertain to AI training, web scraping, etc. A lot of ordinary people seem to believe that this is how it’s supposed to go.
WDYM?
A lot of noisy people here have a very expansive view of intellectual property. They seem to want total control over anything they “own”, without any regard for the consequences. There’s no room for any kind of fair use. Where they can’t own something, they still want to own it.
With some horror, I recall a thread where the mob called for making robots.txt legally binding. That wasn’t big tech lobbyists, just some ordinary users here.
Because piracy is the boogieman that allows them to wrestle more power and profit from everyone around them like the parasites they are. They want a cut every time anyone ever watches something, ever. And they want to control if you even have the option of what to watch.
Once Neuralink’s installed adn they start selling off our thoughts to information collection bureaus, they’re gonna want us to pay a license for everytime we think about someting not in the public domain
Movies today also kinda suck.
I live in the EU, have all major streaming subscribtions within the family, and we couldn’t watch Terminator 2 anywhere. One of the most famous classic action movie, not even available for purchase on Apple TV.
They can go F themselves
From the article…
He also told the audience that pirate-site operators "aren’t teenagers playing an elaborate prank. The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills.
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t throw the word ‘terrorist’ into that description as well.
…Many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, murder, terrorism, poisonings, Hentai, bad DIY, unsolicited advice, telling women to smile, wearing JNKOs, hacking banks, and NOT FLOSSING!
There are vegans that were dictators. Therefore veganism should be illegal. Also some people who breath air have been known to be murderers.
Everybody knows movie pirates eat babies—
Wait.
Pirate Bay.
Pirate Ba(b)y?
Pirate Babe Eat?
I think you’re on to something!
You wouldn’t download a baby?!
Especially eye-roll-inducing considering the pedophile problem in Hollywood hasn’t really gotten better, let alone been solved. Many of the exec types demanding things change are likely to be either perpetrators themselves, or sympathisers with the perpetrators of this behavior, and they tell us what we should believe is right or wrong based on the almighty dollar? Fuck Hollywood in general, but especially fuck the movie industry executives in charge. Greedy bastards.
Are we surprised that the people that make up fantastical scenarios are selling a fantastical scenario? The people pirating are every day people that don’t want to pay so much for entertainment. You inept dolt.
You inept dolt.
Hostile much, conflict bot?
And people accuse me of wooshness. 😋
I’m upset at the movie executive that is inept. Not you.
Are we surprised that the people that make up fantastical scenarios are selling a fantastical scenario? The people pirating are every day people that don’t want to pay so much for entertainment. You inept dolt.
I’m upset at the movie executive that is inept. Not you.
The way you bolted that on to a comment that was directed at me, and have it meant for someone else, seems a little unusual, but fair enough.
Thanks for the clarification.
Yea. I was definitely talking to the exec. But I see the confusion. I should have quoted him or something.
Aren’t those things already illegal? Wouldn’t the solution be to just go after the pirate-site owners for those reasons? Then the only pirate-site owners remaining will be regular people—the vast minority, they would have you believe.
I think maybe they are describing themselves.
Charles Rivkin… The serial killer?
The parasites that keep the money aren’t the “movie industry”, the people who actually work to make the movies are.
“you don’t get any residuals because the movie is still in the red decades later”
Mmm Hollywood Accounting… Misappropriate my residuals harder daddy!! 💦💦💦
