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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 33 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Of course they do. They don't want to pay for it. They just want it done at no extra cost to them. Just like copyright strikes against internet users.

I worked for a ISP and we started demanding money to roll a truck to hand those shitty things to our customers. We would tell the customer that they have no idea who they are and if they don't respond they never will. We stopped getting so many strikes. The absolute shittiest ones I spoke with were the ones with the Grateful Dead's lead singers family trust.

None of them ever paid for us to roll a truck. None of them ever served a subpoena.

[-] bokherif@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago

Right, like a router can unencrypt and read what’s on the link. This is just IP blocks which will never work lol.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

"Hey there customer, if you want internet access on our network (the only one available in your area), you have to install our intermediary certificate on your machine!"

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Hello, VPN

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

"Oh sorry, looks like we couldn't decrypt that traffic, those packets went to the burn pile"

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 46 points 16 hours ago

Italy did that. No lessons were learned. No fix is in sight. It gets worse every day.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

This entire system immediately fails as soon as someone uses a VPN.

All pirates will use VPN, so this horrorshow of a system literally just only punishes innocent people

Great going, assholes.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Why not make routers do the same thing with criticizing the rich on twitter or facebook ?

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 156 points 1 day ago

I would like to once again thank the motion picture and recording industry associations for their contributions to both the sophistication of media piracy and the quality of content.

Without their efforts, we would probably all still be playing Russian Roulette on Limewire for a low quality copy of Zoolander. The first person to record a movie on Betamax would probably shit themselves if they could have seen what could be accomplished with some arrogance, incompetence, and blind greed. There's no doubt that you guys are the real MVP when it comes to promoting media piracy.

The anti-piracy industry couldn't be more Mickey Mouse if it were run by the Marx Brothers.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 62 points 18 hours ago

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 72 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Piracy is a service problem.

Provide a good enough service and people won't want to pirate. Anyone that still does in that scenario probably was never going to be a sale anyway.

Provide a bad service and people who would have happily paid get pushed towards piracy. The more people pirating, the better the tools get as you say.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

It's not rocket science, they already were there back when Netflix was new, they just let it get shit.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 34 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

AKA greed. Why license your content to Netflix when you can have your own streaming service and lock your viewers into your piddly little hoard of content?

Just how many streaming providers are there today? That number likely changes almost daily at this point…

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 14 hours ago

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

One problem with this is that monopolies are bad.

I'm not sure what the ideal solution is. It's not "12 different services each charging $12/month" though.

I don't think regular capitalism can really solve this.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

It's not "12 different services each charging $12/month" though.

Add to that content that is geolocked behind a pay wall that isn't even made avaliable to access in my country.

"So you won't make it possible for me to pay you for your content... Ok, I'll just figure it out myself".

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Compete on the service. All streamers have access to stream essentially whatever and they compete on price, quality and value added service.

Music streaming is almost there imo, if they paid the artists more, you want the highest quality? Go to tidal. You want infinite playlists? Deezer flow is where to go. You want podcasts? Spotify... I kid, Spotify's ease of conectivity is an industry envy. But they all have, essentially, the same music, if you allow essentially to do some work.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 12 hours ago

I'm an outlier in that I buy music on Bandcamp. Renting music feels like a bad deal to me, but for some people it might work out.

I think I repeat listen to albums a lot more than I repeat watch stuff.

Still, I'd consider a service that was like "pay $10 for this movie and it's yours, drm free, forever". A quick search shows WandaVision on DVD is like $50, and you'd have to like rip and self host yourself to stream it.

I think the subscription model is often user hostile, but it's very lucrative

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Deezer flow has completely replaced commercial radio for me, except the DJ is at my behest. I listen to the radio at work and while driving, then albums at home.

[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

Exactly, most of my irl friends pirate shows/tv but they all have spotify. Im considered "extra" by them for pirating music

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago

Because those never would falsely identify anything? Because youtube does it so well? Because data isn't encrypted?

On what planet does this make sense?

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 7 points 12 hours ago

Also just ignore that core routers are super specialized to moving packets as fast as possible. Having to inspect every packet would ruin them, and literally nuke service speeds across the country.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 71 points 23 hours ago

I'm sorry I can't hear you over at the sounds of capitalism not caring about people being hit in the crossfire.

Green line must go up

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago

"Yeah! Get that green line up! Brian Thompson sacriced himself for capitolisms sins.....or something......"

~CEO's probably.

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Unfortunately nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 34 points 22 hours ago

They don’t care at all unfortunately

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

On the "I dunno how you'll do it, but you better find a way, bitch" planet.

Frankly something just went wrong in the first place from the very beginning.

They shouldn't have any input on how infrastructure works. Especially "automated blocking". You want to sue someone, do that. Messing with infrastructure without a court is just nuts, and if someone's doing it, I hope there is another guy with Italian ancestry living nearby.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Doesn't have to be Itailian. I'm not picky about supporting modern day Robinhood's, regardless of background.

[-] Deello@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

A capitalist one

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[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

“Copyright industry” is such a weird term. Why not use the term everyone already knows, media companies.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 35 points 20 hours ago

Intellect gatekeepers. Killers of progress.

They somehow believe that ideas and concepts can be owned by one person only, barring everyone else who is doing something similar.

Freedom of thought and freedom of expression requires freedom from intellectual property.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

It's not the same. There's all those lawyers specialized in copyright. Companies that track down "piracy". Then there's rights owners like the Disney corporation or JK Rowling. Rights management firms. Online platforms like Getty or Adobe.

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[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

Funny thing about the internet is we can just find a different route. Fucking idiots.

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