Comments on: “Six Strikes” Scheme May Lead to Lawsuits Against Pirates

By: Ophelia Millais

Ophelia Millais — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:01:00 +0000

The personal info that Lesser is talking about is subscriber info that only the ISP has: name, address, phone, email. The IP address is already known to the monitoring companies; that’s part of generating a strike notification. The monitoring companies pass the IP and torrent info to the ISP, and then the ISP generates a strike notification and sends it to the subscriber.

There’s nothing preventing the monitoring company from also sharing the IP address with the copyright owners at any point in the Six Strikes process, or outside of the process. I mean, think about it… if someone’s sharing leaked, pre-release material, the copyright owners certainly aren’t going to wait around for six strikes to accumulate; they’re going to go after that person ASAP. They’ll subpoena the ISP for the subscriber’s name and contact info, based on the already-known IP address, just like they already do.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:03:00 +0000

The fact of the matter is that MOST so-called “pirates” are also the biggest supporters of the industry. They are people who go see movies at the theater on day one… and day two… but then want to watch it again before it comes out on home video, but due to costs, they just download the movie instead. As for TV shows? Its kind of the same… they want to watch the episode again, or perhaps they don’t have access to the channel(s) that air(s) the show(s), so they download it to watch it… but 9 times out of 10, they buy the season when it comes out.

Seriously… MOST so-called “pirates” are people like me… people who own over 600 BDs with hundreds more DVDs waiting to be upgraded… people who see movies multiple times in theaters, and buy them day one upon their release. The truth of the matter is that if the MPAA managed to put every pirate in prison, they’d end up losing at least 30=40% of their most loyal customers, and then they’d really see drop in sales.

The people leading the charge against pirates are foolish, who ignore the facts. You know what the #1 most downloaded movie was last year? The Avengers! You know what was the most profitable movie last year? THE AVENGERS! And its the third highest grossing movie of all time! The MPAA are a bunch of idiots who can’t see the writing on the wall. “Pirating” doesn’t hurt the industry… it HELPS it.

If they really want to do something about it, they should focus their efforts on advancements in protection technology, like Cinavia, and save themselves the time and money they put into their stupid ass witch hunts, which are only going to shrink their pool of consumers if they take the kind of action they seem to want to.

The MPAA is a useless tool these days, anyway… no one with half a brain respects their ratings, anymore, as Its all so fucking arbitrary that its beyond moronic (oh, you cut of two dozen heads in The Hobbit? well lets rate that PG-13… oh, Donnie Yen kicked some dude in the face in Ip Man? well lets rate that R… fucking stupid)..

By: Antonio Gambino

Antonio Gambino — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:48:00 +0000

Fuck the MAFIAA!

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By: ThinkingAhead

ThinkingAhead — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 06:33:00 +0000

People think things seem bad now with the actions the RIAA and MPAA are taking now to protect their IP: just wait until 3D-printing becomes mainstream and multitudes of other major trade associations start trying to protect proprietary designs.

These issues really need to be decided and codified into law/have precedents set before things go completely FUBAR for consumers.

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