Posted on 09/12/2012 11:42:09 PM PDT by Pontiac
If you've downloaded even one movie, song or TV show using the BitTorrent file-sharing system, chances are, it didn't go unnoticed.
A U.K. study has found that pretty much all files shared with the help of popular torrent sites like The Pirate Bay are monitored — mostly by large internet service companies likely acting on behalf of copyright enforcers or private corporations.
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Pff, thats MILLIONS of people. Good luck on that.
I’ll return it.
you had to figure that was going on- these people might soem day be presented with a huge bill- but I think more likely, they will simply be at soem point be warned to cease and desist, and if they don’t then will probably be fined
The hardcore people have already moved on to heavily encrypted protocols so that the ISPs can’t figure out what is actually being transferred other than a large file.
Other than that I never had use for it.
I have always thought that people have a right to the profits from their efforts so I pay for what entertainment I consume.
On the other hand I believe that copyrights were never intended to extend to succeeding generation unlimited in scope.
It is now law that copyrights can be extend and extended. I certainly don’t believe that copyrights should be protected and royalties collected indefinitely.
Should the decedents of Shakespeare be collecting royalties on Richard the III?
Gone With the Wind was released in 1939, Warner Brothers is still generating profits from the movie. That is 73 years. I think it is high time that the movie is in the public domain. 70 years is more than enough time to generate profits from an artistic work. Copyrights were never intended to last this long by the founders.
Yep, I was going to post that...
I you had some hardware but needed the driver for it and the manufacturer no longer supported the hardware (or was out of business) you would be violating copyrights to download that software from another source.
No kidding, and “Game of Thrones” is an obvious example. It’s probably the most-torrented show on TV during its’ ten weeks of episodes every year, and for a month or two after.
HBO ***COULD*** monetize it by selling online-only subscriptions to “HBO Go!”, but they refuse to. . .
And so, GoT gets pirated like crazy. . .
I don’t get what the difference between TiVo or recording a show and downloading it, why is one legal and the other not legal? I downloaded game of thrones only because it took so damn long to release it on blue ray, I watched it on hbo and downloaded it and now have a blue ray copy. The problem with these people who complain is that they make it seem as if someone downloads something then they refuse to pay for it or are stealing it. This is not the case a lot of illegal downloads are a very good way of putting the product out there, I can name so many shows where I downloaded an episode or two and loved the show and decided I would get the whole set on DVD for my collection. And if It is about music, I don’t download music I listen on YouTube whenever I am in the mood of listening to something specific, for some reason that isn’t illegal but downloading the music is.
But you’re not buying it in the way they want you to and when they want you to:
Example: Game of Thrones
They want you to pay TWICE, once for the privilege of watching it on HBO, via the local cable monopoly, and again, a year later, via the DVD set.
Mind you, I now have a “collectors item”, thanks to the shenanigans of the HBO crew: I’ve got a copy of the uncensored “George Bush’s Head on a Pike” edition DVDs, produced and sold before anyone knew about it. Someday I’ll sell it to a hard-core BDSer who will still be blaming George Bush in 2038. . . . (evil grin)
“Mind you, I now have a “collectors item”, thanks to the shenanigans of the HBO crew: I’ve got a copy of the uncensored “George Bush’s Head on a Pike” edition DVDs”
That is cool. I’d like to get a copy of the original, unedited first episodes of “Beavis and Butthead”.
I’d like to download, is this just as easy? How long have you been issues?
[[I have always thought that people have a right to the profits from their efforts so I pay for what entertainment I consume]]
Unfortunately that’s not how a lot of peopel think- they think that just because someoen can get it somewhere without paying, then ‘it must be alright’ and they try to justify that thinking by sayign things like ‘artists shoudl be grateful peopel are illegally downloading hteir stuff because it ‘gives the artist more exposure’
Well if those peopel tryign to justify that lien of thinking had products that were STOLEN from them, then made available to the masses free of charge, I doubt they’d be singign the same tune- of course thsoe that DO illegally download stuff make all kinds of excuses and woudl mostl ikely say to the above scenario ‘oh no- I’d be grateful because my brand is ‘gettign free publicity’- meanwhile hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps even billions) are lost every year which does NOT go into the pockets of artists, nor does the ‘free publicity’ help to drive sales contrary to popular arguments
[[On the other hand I believe that copyrights were never intended to extend to succeeding generation unlimited in scope.]]
I’ll have to disagree- I think descendents should be able to keep prospering if they were lucky enough to have relatives who patentd somethign or wrote or invented etc etc etc— I don’t think royalties and profits should just go to strangers once the person is deceased- I do think though there is a tiem when somethign becomes puiblic domain- but it would have to be when family members no longer care to keep current on patent renewals or liscences, or l;eases or whatever- then I think it should be open to hte public
[[I certainly don’t believe that copyrights should be protected and royalties collected indefinitely.]]
Well I don’t know abotu that- because, suppsoe a song that was made famous becomes public domain- then anyone coudl jump on that song made famous by someoen else, and claim it as their own and patent it/copywrite it- and make millions on it until that current copywrite runs out? then another person jumps on it and so on and so on? I think the money shoudl stay in the family as long as they meet requirements to keep the copywrites current and up to date- Let the other peopel invent their own songs isntead of profitting off someone else’s genious- This is hwat hte copywrites are suppsoed to discourage- peopel umpingo n songs/inventions etc that they didn’t create, and claimign htem as their own and makign millions off of them-
It’sw a touchy subject to be sure-
[[I have always thought that people have a right to the profits from their efforts so I pay for what entertainment I consume]]
Unfortunately that’s not how a lot of peopel think- they think that just because someoen can get it somewhere without paying, then ‘it must be alright’ and they try to justify that thinking by sayign things like ‘artists shoudl be grateful peopel are illegally downloading hteir stuff because it ‘gives the artist more exposure’
Well if those peopel tryign to justify that lien of thinking had products that were STOLEN from them, then made available to the masses free of charge, I doubt they’d be singign the same tune- of course thsoe that DO illegally download stuff make all kinds of excuses and woudl mostl ikely say to the above scenario ‘oh no- I’d be grateful because my brand is ‘gettign free publicity’- meanwhile hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps even billions) are lost every year which does NOT go into the pockets of artists, nor does the ‘free publicity’ help to drive sales contrary to popular arguments
[[On the other hand I believe that copyrights were never intended to extend to succeeding generation unlimited in scope.]]
I’ll have to disagree- I think descendents should be able to keep prospering if they were lucky enough to have relatives who patentd somethign or wrote or invented etc etc etc— I don’t think royalties and profits should just go to strangers once the person is deceased- I do think though there is a tiem when somethign becomes puiblic domain- but it would have to be when family members no longer care to keep current on patent renewals or liscences, or l;eases or whatever- then I think it should be open to hte public
[[I certainly don’t believe that copyrights should be protected and royalties collected indefinitely.]]
Well I don’t know abotu that- because, suppsoe a song that was made famous becomes public domain- then anyone coudl jump on that song made famous by someoen else, and claim it as their own and patent it/copywrite it- and make millions on it until that current copywrite runs out? then another person jumps on it and so on and so on? I think the money shoudl stay in the family as long as they meet requirements to keep the copywrites current and up to date- Let the other peopel invent their own songs isntead of profitting off someone else’s genious- This is hwat hte copywrites are suppsoed to discourage- peopel umpingo n songs/inventions etc that they didn’t create, and claimign htem as their own and makign millions off of them-
It’sw a touchy subject to be sure-
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