each round is funnier.
this time i have the feel ppl pirate way less movies and US movies are a lot less worth sharing. i remember when groups raced for cam releases and that crap then was on tons of one-click hosters. not anymore. there are still so many sites and one click hosters, it can 9nly be the quality of US entertainment.
and that tells me mpaa is in dire need of money if ppl dont even want their junk amymore.
another starswars/startrek spin off, many many more marvel movies.
the enshittification has rendered enshittified culture to worthless.
How are they gonna site block? If they block through the ISP’s DNS, change your DNS. If they block through IP, well America is turning into China with its great firewall lol. Either way, if they manage to take down piratebay (good luck) we should run our own DHT crawlers like Bitmagnet (https://bitmagnet.io/), or torrent through i2p
This is to be expected, corporations will fight tooth and nail for every penny. We need to fight back to make piracy resilient regardless of the whims of the MPA and the law. Because piracy transcends the law.
Try fixing all the fucking subscription services and we won't want to stream or clone a copy of media which you never owned because its virtually non existent
I still disagree with the notion made up by punlishers that you buy a dvd or cd you somehow only buy a license to view it. I never agreed to that and you can't just print text on something to make it so.
Ofcourse I don't have the right to make reproduction but owning the physical product should make me the owner.
Maybe not related to your comment but I wanted to rage about this.
Every report on piracy I read points out that the biggest pirates are also the biggest spenders on “legitimate” media, streaming, cinema tickets. This will only increase purchase of such things by a rounding error. It won’t be the money spinner they’re hoping for. It’ll reduce the number of people that view shows & movies, and have a more significant effect on viral and organic hype.
Its the whales and the people that can't afford to buy more media than they already do.
If the industry actually got the big spenders to do away with their self-hosting/data-archive setups, they won't actually put that money into more media, as they're already budgetting a set amount for the media itself which is not going to increase.
It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.
Not just competitive but available without platform limitations and special streaming contracts. Sports is the only thing keeping traditional cable alive and also drives digital TV subscriptions. The rest of the crap on TV is trash. Even then, it should always be on demand without restrictions. And blackout areas.
The ideal process would allow creatives across the film, TV, music, and book industries to go to court, where they can request that internet service providers block access to websites with pirated content.
Surely the sites will actually have to host the content this time, right? Not just chasing harmless index files again?
They're instituting this for the generation that grew up with Vpns so they could watch pirate streaming sites on their school Wi-Fi? Good fucking luck.
They are decrepit dinosaurs killing grandmas for an industry that died 10 years ago. A violent hate machine running on fumes that must be destroyed for humanity's sake.
This time the glove come off from the get go. DIE MPAA FREAKS !
They'll get the government to ban require all VPNs that operate in the USA to keep logs. Cause the bad people in foreign countries use them to to the big bad anti American things.
Mullvad has already blocked port forwarding likely to placate these same groups
No, port forwarding removed because hosting threatened to kick mullvad out. Lot of shit hosted through that. No hosting, no vpn, so needed to remove to continue operate.
Pressure on host probably caused by those group though.
