'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline'
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(Fyi, the first season of the Doctor Who reboot was cosponsored by CBC, making it canadian. Look at the credits of most every movie these days and you'll find it recieved canadian tax benefits, yet Canada is often blocked or delayed at release. And half of US actors are secret Canadians.)
Well, not that you would win on those grounds, but you wouldn't have to you wouldn't ever be charged in Canada anyway unless you left it seeding for mad long.
Your argument is "I take what I want because I want it and I have no other way" isn't at all convincing.
Canada doesn't turn a blind eye, they explicitly decriminalized it especially for people that are not distributing.
Your argument would be bunk regardless though.
I almost mentioned that in my comment to preempt you mentioning that, seems I should have. Jury nullification would not apply in your case, and the jury may not even have that option.
If you honestly think you could take some illegally with the defense "I wanted it" and walk you are delusional.
On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
> Jury nullification can occur in most common law jurisdictions (i.e.: legal systems that descend from the British legal system). There's no specific limit (say civil versus criminal) on when it can occur
You need to do some more reading. As much as people like to post jury nullification as though it's some sort of 'aha', it's kind of amazing they miss all the stories and articles about how jury nullification is removed as a practical option for a jury to exercise.
> And it absolutely could apply in a copyright case - that happened to come before a jury. It specifically does not depend on the validity of a legal defence, but despite it.
A judge will order what facts a jury can consider and deliberate on.
The parents argument "I took it because I wanted it" wouldn't even be allowed as a defense most likely, and certainly the jury would not be allowed to consider it.
> On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
What are you talking about when you say "civil disobedience"
Clearly you have no legal education, at all. Someone told you about jury nullification or you read an article and now you think it has all sort of powers it actually doesn't.
The judge doesn't matter. Jury nullification doesn't matter.
"I took it because I wanted it" is a shitty argument, end of story.
Movies that are 100% paid by public money are not available to see anywhere, after a short theater release. Even if you are willing to pay for it.
I fear the result is that the public funding will dry up completely, shutting down an entire industry. That would be a big cultural loss, just because they manage the funds so badly. Fund projects people actually want to watch. Fund more diverse works. And make the damned product available to the population that paid for it.
Kind of like how US streaming companies are purging content for 'tax breaks' but then you don't find a copy of the content anywhere.
I think this is due to people deeming media companies, same with how grocery companies are shifting, as companies you are free to steal from because they steal from us. Nobody cares if you steal from Disney or Warner Bros because they are giant trillion dollar companies. Same with how Loblaws, Sobeys are shifting. Stealing from them becomes something that is not frowned upon by your local populace and in some cases encouraged.
I suspect as we advance further alone this timeline it will only get worse.
People just have ZERO empathy for trillion dollar companies. The only recourse is a extremely small chance you get caught. And even then if the police also don't care, nobody will enforce it.
It's just rather hard to be on the side of MPAA against single mom of 2 torrenting The Grinch for her kids to watch.
And everytime you boot up Disney Plus and see the new Marvel movie "pre-release" for $30 that opinion just grows and grows.
Unless that trillion dolar company makes shiny phones and laptops with a fruit on them ;)
.. after mass adoption of $1 song purchases with trivial sync to iPod
.. followed in 2009 by removal of DRM from iTunes music purchases
.. without media piracy lawsuits against their customers.
Huh? How can you pirate from Apple when they're not the IP owners? I don't remember Apple being the owner of the IP on iTunes, but the music studios were: Sony, BMG, Universal, etc. Apple was a middle-man.
Who negotiated with IP owners for unprecedented music availability, then removal of DRM.
With Apple TV, they are IP owners for some content.
My suspicion is that it has something to do with the strategy of streaming sites: language and cheap. Streaming sites (mostly Netflix) have been releasing a lot of shows in Spanish/Portuguese, including some of good quality and have been keeping their prices low in those countries.
And these shows haven't been available in pirate sites, most people in the region don't have the know-how to pirate them and put it there.
A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.
I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more.
It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years.
Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.
Well that's patently ridiculous. Maybe you've just matured and have better ways to spend your time?
I can only guess why:
- More focus on content instead of message
- Less political restriction on content compared to today
And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
I don't enjoy today's politics, either. But art and entertainment was never really politics-free.
Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience.
This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.
To agree with the sentiment "there are no good TV shows anymore" is pure nonsense.
There is just significantly more content, and so people draw incomplete conclusions and make assumptions. Nothing new.
I'm not one to long for years past, but quality has been taken over by quantity many leagues over.
The answer here is not that modern content is worse, simply that you need to expand your horizons and maybe stop judging stuff and dismissing it.
Few years back i was an avid user of YIFI (yts), to the point that i even made a front end to it. I don't think i liked the piracy aspect of it, the thing for me was the catalog. Lots and lots of indie titles.
I think a combination of bad titles, spread across multiple streaming services made me quit the whole thing.
I now watch YouTube and play some Xbox on my spare time.
That aside though, there are still plenty of good titles. More than ever. People just have no clue where to look or want more of the stuff they liked 20 years ago I guess.
There is more, better content out there now than any point in history.
Guess which consumers enjoy more.
Generally paying for a seedbox is the accepted way to pirate while hiding IP.
If you use torrents a lot, you use a seedbox, not a vpn.
People casually torrenting are not worried about hiding their IP.
Also, not sure that is a top docker image but either way plenty of people with the skill to use docker are probably running their own vpn for their home network. I don't think it means much.
Well... if you think cooking recipes, clothing, architectural styles or business practices, yes.
But if you think Beethoven symphonies, "Citizen Kane" or James Watt's steam engine then no.
My point is that big, rare, difficult, hard, risky or expensive innovations need a different incentive than the simple and mundane ones.
I'll agree that the system is largely abused by rent-seekers but most of modern technology and culture was fostered by intellectual propriety.
Still yes. Had the internet existed back then of course people would be freely sharing and discussing those things.
> My point is that big, rare, difficult, hard, risky or expensive innovations need a different incentive than the simple and mundane ones.
Sure. That's irrelevant though. 20+ years of piracy data shows it doesn't hurt sales. Don't drink the koolaid.
What’s incredible is that the government have taken upon themselves the mission of preventing computer users from copying bytes, at the expense of the taxpayer. It’s a mission impossible, for the financials of big corporations.
And some people even say “But there is no other solution!”
It's not piracy, we already paid!
The Canadian government does not. You likely haven't paid the tax in the last decade, if ever.
While it changes my understanding of the legal facts, my feelings about piracy remain the same. Funny, that.
Remember, if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-jame...