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I demand laws requiring the movie industries to throw any IPs they don't want to use or any movies they don't give reasonable and simple access straight into the public domain

What year is this? 2008?!? Now we have Netflix and piracy is not a problem, right? Oooohhhh right they decided to kill the golden egg chicken but they still want the eggs

For all the random crap American ISPs have done, the one thing they usually don't do is piracy monitoring unless they get paid a premium to do it.

Like Disney pays ISPs and other data companies to track torrent peers and report any IPs in the USA. But I bet you at&t would not care at all if they weren't being paid for it lol.

an industry which throws away finished movies because they don't want to spend the money to release it?

yeah nah, you're disqualified from an opinion on piracy.

USDoJ: How about no.

Oh, right. This isn't 1992 when the DoJ had balls and a constitution.

Anyone have a list of legislators who are also investors in VPN companies?

Nah

Or what?

I would propose a law that states " All companies must keep their data away from the Internet. If the data ends up in the Internet then it's up for grabs by anyone"

Fuck em

looks over at usenet-only arr stack

"Ok, whatever."

They can go F themselves

Lmao’s in VPN

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

Legally guaranteed corporate profits, with enforcement funded by taxpayers.

We should abolish this practice.

Ugh Charles Rivkin has such a punch-able face.

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!

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.

What’s a “movie”? Is that like some kinda Olde English thing like castles and rickets?

The movie industry can't bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.

If it's that big a deal go after the service providers for the servers, this type of shit just makes inhibiting free speech easier.

If I don't want people using Truth Social I guess making a bunch of accounts to share torrent links would be enough to shut it down?

The MPAA still has never been able to demonstrate that privacy even has actual impacts on movie and ticket sales... When Netflix was super convenient and had a lot of content piracy went down. Turns out splitting to dozens of streaming services made it difficult enough that people just went back to sailing the high seas. So lower your prices, make it more convenient to pay for services and people will just do that instead.

Wake me when YouTube gets blocked.

The parasites that keep the money aren't the "movie industry", the people who actually work to make the movies are.