• Deal to combat piracy in UK imminent
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>After four alerts, no further action will be taken by the ISPs. £750,000 plus £75,000/year literally just to politely disapprove. hilarious
If they really want to stop piracy, Right holders should just spend that money on actually providing ways for people to easily access their content rather than pile on a shit ton of DRM and Copyright protection which actually prevents people watching that content in their prefered way (TV, computer, mobile). Right holders also need to stop being cunts to other countries and actually allow people outside of the US to buy and view their content rather than straight up blocking them. The only way to buy TV shows and movies digitally in Australia is through Apple's iTunes store which only allows the content to be viewed through iTunes or an apple device as they have DRM preventing the files being converted into be useable formats for use on other platforms. The only reason I ever torrent movies and TV shows is because I cannot find a digital store that allows me to download the content that I want and then convert it into the format I want to watch it on. I like putting stuff on my portable HDD and watching stuff off of my tv but my tv doesn't play any of the formats that are available for purchase within Australia.
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;44761197]If they really want to stop piracy, Right holders should just spend that money on actually providing ways for people to easily access their content rather than pile on a shit ton of DRM and Copyright protection which actually prevents people watching that content in their prefered way (TV, computer, mobile). Right holders also need to stop being cunts to other countries and actually allow people outside of the US to buy and view their content rather than straight up blocking them. The only way to buy TV shows and movies digitally in Australia is through Apple's iTunes store which only allows the content to be viewed through iTunes or an apple device as they have DRM preventing the files being converted into be useable formats for use on other platforms. The only reason I ever torrent movies and TV shows is because I cannot find a digital store that allows me to download the content that I want and then convert it into the format I want to watch it on. I like putting stuff on my portable HDD and watching stuff off of my tv but my tv doesn't play any of the formats that are available for purchase within Australia.[/QUOTE] This. Generally here in the UK to see a new episode of a TV show you have to wait atleast a week, sometimes months or even years after the US airing for it to air on TV here. I think a lot of people find that rather unacceptable when you can torrent it and have it minutes after the US airing has finished and you can watch it when you want, on any device you want without adverts. If TV shows want a better reception internationally they need to make shows available to watch whenever you want, at the same time as the US release. You need to offer a better service if you expect people to pay for it.
The thing that pisses me off about some services like Amazon Instant & NowTV etc, is they take shows off after a while, so if you haven't watched them before then, you are fucked. I also HATE it when certain shows are for a certain service like House of Cards (Netflix?) and Black Sails (Amazon). Annoying as fuck when it looks interesting but you have to buy into this shit to view it, no wonder people pirate.
What studios fail to realise is that a high proportion of their viewership are students/children who don't have the funds to shell out £30+ for a box set, or £2-£3 for a 40 episode on iTunes. These are the people who will pirate the show and you'll see no revenue from it, aside from a proportion of official merchandise sales. Either put the shows on Netflix, or if you really don't want to do that offer a service similar to Netflix, selling users a monthly pass for a relatively low price.
Why are people rating this dumb? This is great, they were going to implement punitive measures for piracy. This is a win for common sense and not having media companies interfering with the internet.
Oh wow, the Digital Economy Act got watered the fuck down. This is hilarious
Wasnt there a post somewhere about a guy downloading a discography off a torrent site and he got tons of letters just like this that wouldn't stop coming?
[QUOTE=gt118;44769093]Wasnt there a post somewhere about a guy downloading a discography off a torrent site and he got tons of letters just like this that wouldn't stop coming?[/QUOTE] I think I remember reading that. And then some fat dude smashed down his door and said "yer a pirate harry"
[QUOTE=smurfy;44769271]I think I remember reading that. And then some fat dude smashed down his door and said "yer a pirate harry"[/QUOTE] Piratewarts here I come!
I have a sub on Netflix and I've pretty much stopped dling/pirating movies and series all together. Here in Holland you have to wait weeks for the episode to get translated and get aired and what not. It's just way easier to simply download or Netflix 'em.
[QUOTE=xianlee;44763085]The thing that pisses me off about some services like Amazon Instant & NowTV etc, is they take shows off after a while, so if you haven't watched them before then, you are fucked. I also HATE it when certain shows are for a certain service like House of Cards (Netflix?) and Black Sails (Amazon). Annoying as fuck when it looks interesting but you have to buy into this shit to view it, no wonder people pirate.[/QUOTE] If you want to watch Game of Thrones in Australia, you have to buy a $75/month Cable TV service with the premium movie package (Plus the cost of installation and the tuner). The episodes aren't allowed to air anywhere else (Including iTunes) until they've finished airing the entire season two months later
It's all about anywhere that is not the Us getting the short end of the stick, If i had a quid for every time I've seen "content blocked in your country" or "content blocked in the UK" I'd have enough money for crack and hoes wearing dresses made of gold every night of the week for the rest of my life. If shows were made available on Netflix or a similar service as soon as or shortly after air then I'd never need to download them, but as it stands we have to wait weeks, months and sometimes years before it airs here. Before anyone calls me a cheapskate I have the XXL package (the best one) from our only cable TV provider already and still face the same issue of having to wait months and/or years for new series.
[quote]Tinchy Stryder says illegal music downloaders should be fined, as a last resort[/quote] Holy shit. Fuck you.
[QUOTE=kaze4159;44770795]If you want to watch Game of Thrones in Australia, you have to buy a $75/month Cable TV service with the premium movie package (Plus the cost of installation and the tuner). The episodes aren't allowed to air anywhere else (Including iTunes) until they've finished airing the entire season two months later[/QUOTE] Or you could just go on the bay, 2 hours or less after the episode airs, and get a 1080p encode. 480p encodes usually pop up within minutes of the show finishing. Taking it a step further: Private trackers have access to high quality subtitles, multiple audio releases, designated mobile releases, [b]RSS feeds[/b], etc, and for a lot of stuff it's available before the show even airs. Neither of them has commercials (to be fair HBO doesn't either), and you don't have any restrictions on it. Use it on whatever device you want, whenever. Gee. I wonder why it's so popular. I mean fuck. I [i]have[/i] HBO GO access, and it's less effort to get a pirated copy of a game of thrones episode than to use that.
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