Comments on: Should Piracy Punishments Scale To The Quality Of The Copy? http://torrentfreak.com/should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:48:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Online Global Week in Review 4 March 2011 from IP Think Tank /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-772841 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:18:12 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-772841 [...] Should piracy punishments scale to the quality of the copy? (TorrentFreak) [...]

]]> By: Adam Eltér /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-772309 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:00:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-772309 Who watches DVD’s anymore?! Bad quiality, plastic discs, only cons. We need a good ‘Spotify for movies’ here in Europe ASAP!

]]> By: J. /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-772036 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:10:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-772036 I like the precedent this is setting. I think it really makes sense. If the MPAA released a CAM, TS, R5 and DVD version of each movie, I would expect pricing to follow pretty well – TS & R5 being fairly close in price, considerably higer than the CAM and considerably lower than the DVD quality. I know if I pick up the Cam version, I’m most likely only going to get half the screen in semi-blury focus, half way through some guy a few rows down will block some of the action as he tries to get out of the center of the isle to use the restroom & get more popcorn, etc… And because I’m passing out such poor copy, I don’t think I should be fined as much as if I were possibly sharing a non-compressed 50GB BluRay rip of the same movie.

Although, at the same time, I can see the mindset of the movie studios. In their eyes, any pirated copy, regardless of quality, represents a lost sale. To them, if I download a copy of it, I’m not going to see it in theaters & I’m not going to buy it when it comes out on DVD. So I can also understand why they believe quality shouldn’t matter, and why they try to get millions per movie or MP3 or whatever I happen to be caught sharing.

My only concern, as a few have mentioned already, is that the scene will become uber-saturated with low quality crap, just so, if they get caught the fine will be lower. Which I don’t think will help much. I believe it was Gizmodo (or one of her sister sites) that I read an article by an author/poet. He was actually thankful for people pirating his work. He said at first, he was opposed to people copying his work without his permission. But after awhile, he started to notice a trend. Somewhere (Russia maybe) he hadn’t been selling to well… Until some of the pirates had translated his work into Russian. A little after his work was being pirated in Russian, he noticed sales of his works had started to take off in those areas. I think we noticed something similar here in the states with the movie… One of the grossing movies of 2010 also happened to be one of the most pirated movies (Avatar if your interested). I know coloration doesn’t prove causation, but its worth looking into. The MPAA maybe forced to reconsider their “Every download is a lost sale” mantra…

]]> By: wildfire /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771659 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:37:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771659 why don’t they come up with thier own down loading system and charge say three to five dollars for a good quailty video. not only would they make several million more dollars they wouldn’t have a poor copy out. i refuse to go to the threaters and pay what they want for a family of four to go their as it has gotten to high just like directtv and i just dumped them. this is like rock and roll you aren’t gonna be able to stop this as the systems get more and more advance. they have been saying this for years and they more mony last year then they ever have. oh yea my ip adress is never out thier as i encrypt to and from my seedbox and nevr do i upload off my system anymore. keep cutting your nose off to spite your face you bunch of dummies.

]]> By: Anonymous /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771617 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:49:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771617 I don’t go to theaters to watch new movies. I would far rather watch a cam with not so great sound with a bowl of fresh microwave popcorn and bottle of generic pop than sit in some theater munching on stale popcorn with a watered down name brand pop that costs ten times more than it should. When people say they go “for the theater expereience” I quit often wonder what experience they may be referring to. Is it the poorly prepared theater food? is it the pop covered sticky theater floor? is it the uncomfortable theater seating? Is it the sound of people eating for half the movie? I really see no reason to go to the theater when everything I need is right here at home and fifty times better. I watch downloaded movies because I can’t stand for the thater ripoff crap and if the movie sucks, I don’t lose out.

]]> By: Ninja /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771608 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:58:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771608 Srsly? There should be no punishment for SHARING in the first place. The Argentinean case was lame. They should be fined and possibly jailed for selling physical stuff. Theya re making DIRECT money out of it. Even if you consider bt trackers and indexes operators, they get money for the SERVICE they provide and it’s even indirect money (via ads). If MAFIAA hosted such services they could get money for it too (hint MAFIAA, hint).

I couldn’t care less about the quality when I’m trying something. I just get quality stuff when I wanna keep and I can’t buy for whatever the reason (lack of availability or lack of money).

]]> By: ndmushroom /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771600 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:53:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771600 In fact it has just occured to me that this could be used in the defense of DVDrip uploaders, since they’d only be trying to “fix the damage” done to the Industry by a CAM or TS release, which always precedes the DVDRip one. The industry lawyers themselves have argued that the damage was already done.

]]> By: ndmushroom /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771599 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:48:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771599 I’m very curious as to the arguments used by the Industry lawyers to justify their claim for tougher penalties on bad-quality releases. I think the word “devaluation” was mentioned somewhere. Would it then be fair to assume that the industry’s interests lie in someone uploading a better quality product? That would add value to their “devalued product”, hence some compensation might be in order. :-)

]]> By: Anonymous /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771597 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:56:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771597 I can not agree more. Quality is not the issue. If i speed through a red light endangering other people’s life i get a €500 fine. You are a very sick individual if you think that a song is worth the same fine as endangering €25.000,00 / €500,00 = 50 human lives.

]]> By: AnarchyNow /should-piracy-punishments-scale-to-the-quality-of-the-copy-110227/#comment-771595 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:08:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=32168#comment-771595 mp3, divx = bad quality (and for mp3 very very bad quality)
Anyway, DVD/BRD = bad quality too, rofl… I still remember the disappointment with my 1st dvd player…

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