ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12 | |
Psych User ID: 903456 Netherlands 03/17/2012 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If they werent such idiots, hollywood I mean, they would realize how much $ is out there to be made by allowing Xvid downloads of a movie say for 25 cents per. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8360300 The stupidity is they can sell a 100,000 DVDs at $10 a whack with a ton of overhead, packaging, middle men etc or sell 100,000,000 downloads at 25 cents with little overhead but they probably cant figure that one out, no media, no DVD packaging etc. 1 million gross vs 25 million net or very little overhead anyway. Geez they say, cant figure that one out, as people scratch heads. Instead of taking down megaupload they should have worked out a deal. What they did was really idiotic, because the entire system was/is set up. TV should stream for free with the ability to download at a later time and just embed commercials. Net flix sucks. Last time I tried streaming it was way too slow and jumpy. The problem I have with Whats out there for the ordinary public like on cable, netflix etc is its very limited and you cant download to watch later while in other areas on the web, there is virtually any movie or television program you want to see. Entire TV, movie, home entertainment is ready to move on and change in a big way, but these people seem like they want to keep it as is in the stone age, well in 1995 anyway. That said cable companies know they will be screwed if full time legal streaming and downloading goes legit. Maybe thats a big part of the problem. Exactly Do you realise how many jobs would go if you done this. Not at the studios but the midle men that get the dvds to the shops and the shops themselves. Probably not that many. People who are buying hard copies right now, will continue to buy them. Because when you stream, you essentially rent the movie. Besides, innovation should never be blocked by the fear of losing jobs. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10423972 United States 03/17/2012 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well since a VPN can be foreign and the connection is fully encrypted, I am thinking it would be hard to knock out vpns. (Virtual Priveate networks) And as another poster mentioned, message stream encryption is becoming a standard feature in some programs (Vuze) as an example. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10423972 United States 03/17/2012 08:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In fact, I would go so far as to say that all this is going to do, is drive better and better development in fully encrypted anonymizing networks. Which will also have the result of making it extremely hard for police and third parties to catch people doing the really bad stuff. The security establisment is already fairly unhappy with the current status of systems that can "hide" data transfers as it is. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1311324 United States 03/17/2012 08:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | go out and buy cheap copies of media. download said media. wait for them to sue, then countersue for every penny they're trying to get from you. motion to have their lawyer disbarred for going through with a suit wherein they obviously did not check for ownership and legitimate backup of media we own. this only needs to hit them once or twice and they're done. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12693069 United States 03/17/2012 09:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.foxnews.com] Quoting: TURMOIL Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States will soon launch new programs to police their networks in an effort to catch digital pirates and stop illegal file-sharing. Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com] It just gets better and better... Doesn't it? It seems that life in the USA used to be about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now it's all about turning thumbscrews, tighter, and tighter, and tighter. We've already got a MASSIVE prison population. And people IN the "justice" system. What a fucking nightmare this country has turned into. Cameras everywhere, snitches everywhere, satellites, databases, bodyscanners, etc... etc... Sigh... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12356131 United States 03/17/2012 09:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12356131 United States 03/17/2012 09:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.foxnews.com] Quoting: TURMOIL Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States will soon launch new programs to police their networks in an effort to catch digital pirates and stop illegal file-sharing. Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com] It just gets better and better... Doesn't it? It seems that life in the USA used to be about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now it's all about turning thumbscrews, tighter, and tighter, and tighter. We've already got a MASSIVE prison population. And people IN the "justice" system. What a fucking nightmare this country has turned into. Cameras everywhere, snitches everywhere, satellites, databases, bodyscanners, etc... etc... Sigh... Big Brother puts the clamps on! I see law suits just waiting to be pressed. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12693069 United States 03/17/2012 09:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not real sharp on al of this copyright infringement crap. If a person simply goes to YouTube for example, and sees an old Steve McQueen movie he wants to watch, or some newer movie from a few years ago... Whatever... Is it a copyright violation on MY part to click on it and watch it? Or is it just a copy right infraction on the part of the person who placed it on YouTube? I don't really know how this stuff works, and I don't want to accidentally end up with ISP service cut off, or cranked down. Or end up with a cell mate named Bubba. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7032926 Canada 03/17/2012 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't anyone use newsgroups, There you can download blue ray or DVD in full and I believe it's a major pain in the ass for them to find you. It took me a bit of reading and 10 bucks a month but so worth it. Perfect quality blue ray with about an hour download time, 45 min for a DVD. |