Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
There were a few cases in the US where people faced extreme consequences for piracy/IP infringement during the 00s. I expect we’ll see that again. The 3 strikes law here only failed because ISPs refused to do the content companies’ bidding for free.
Big Tech has a lot more power/money now, and will be better prepared for the fight this time. You’re right, the more savvy people will probably be fine. But some people will make mistakes and have to face bans from the internet, huge fines or even jail time (hopefully not in NZ).
They don’t give a shit about this. Their greed knows no bounds.
Do you know if there have been any cases like that recently? I know there have been for those running sharing sites or servers but haven’t really heard of them going after single users like they used to.
I can see them going after crackers/encoders or those that run piracy services and are part of scene groups, but it doesn’t seem worth it for users any more. With the perpetually online world most people who aren’t even that techy know how to pirate these days.
I mean it probably costs them more in lawyer fees than any money they can get from joe bloggs downloading a few movies or tv shows.
Not recently, but my view is that a big reason why they eased up on piracy was because we had the transition from cable/broadcast TV to streaming. There was a lot of competition, so the companies were focussed on each other.
We are rapidly approaching a point where there will be a handful of streaming/content companies that control everything, not just in the US, but the entire world. The more stable that market becomes, the more the execs will be forced to look elsewhere to grow profits (since they can’t win over viewers from traditional TV any more). That’s when attention will turn to piracy, and we’ll have a return to the anti-piracy efforts of the 00’s, but this time (in my opinion) it’ll be worse.
It doesn’t have to be rational for them, i.e. it won’t matter that it actually loses them money going after pirates. It just matters that they can tell their board/shareholders “we would have a bajillion more in profits if it wasn’t for those pirates, who we’re actively pursuing”.