Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by brokenmachine on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:16PM
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>Nobody at all bothers to download YouTube videos or Twitch streams since the content is free anyway.
I download every single video on youtube that I think there's any chance I'll want to watch again.
When I look at my playlists, so many of the videos have been deleted. Even if I paid for youtube I wouldn't be able to watch them again.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by new_guy on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:46PM
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> People would much rather pay Netflix a small monthly fee for unlimited access to all the TV shows they watch than hunt them down online.
Except Netflix, Now TV and Amazon Prime etc DON'T HAVE any of the shows I actually want to watch. It's farcical.
I want to pay them, I want to watch shows legally but I can't, so I end up watching them on the 'illegal' sites that do have them.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by helloworld11 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:00AM
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Could you name a couple of good such sites? I ask for, uh, research purposes.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by mattl on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:24PM
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What shows or movies do you want to watch that none of them are on Netflix or Amazon Prime?
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:44PM
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If the content were free to use however you wanted, what would stop Netflix from serving Disney's content or vice versa?
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by chongli on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:34PM
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It's not hard to imagine a scenario where individual downloading is decriminalized but large-scale commercial piracy remains illegal. This would stop Netflix from serving Disney's content without a license but it wouldn't stop Joe Public from downloading Game of Thrones or what have you.
Such a regime would encourage content creators to make it more readily available so that users are willing to pay for the convenience, a la Netflix.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:22PM
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I imagine this taking the form of individual copying being okay while distribution is illegal. That would probably have to be regardless of scale and price/commercialization.
Honestly I think even movies could work similarly if the content creators actually made them available. People go crazy for Disney+ because everything is on there for one monthly fee.