US Online Piracy Lawsuits Break Record Numbers 43
Copyright cases in the United States are dominated by two companies -- Malibu Media and Strike 3 Holdings -- that are generally unknown to the public at large. This year alone, they have filed more than 1,700 lawsuits, which as TorrentFreak reports, sets a new file-sharing lawsuit record in the most recent quarter.
I'm seeing the opposite effect (Score:5, Interesting)
So the article mentioned they are going after adult videos being shared.
However, I'm seeing the opposite effect W.R.T. movies. All the latest crap Hollywood is putting out, such as Stupid Wars: The Latest Junk -- it is SO bad that it isn't even worth pirating in the first place!
Between RedLetterMedia, MauLer, Midnight's Edge, CinemaSins, etc., and other YouTuber "reviewers" these guys will never be out of a job with all the bad movies Hollywood continues to pump out year after year.
Are people still sharing music? Apps?
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Hollywood should learn that doing the same thing over and over only works in porn.
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Netflix should negotiate with the porn industry to include an adults only tier. :D
Watch how that subscriber base jumps by several orders of magnitude.
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And that formula: Heterosexual infidelity and homosexuality.
There isn't a single major sitcom, drama, or even science fiction show or fantasy that does not contain these elements.
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And that formula: Heterosexual infidelity and homosexuality.
There isn't a single major sitcom, drama, or even science fiction show or fantasy that does not contain these elements.
This is very true. Also: "men are bad and women are good" and "women can do things not because they are smart or work hard but because they are women and that auto-magically gives them super powers".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTR4l62Duk [youtube.com]
This is well worth watching on the subject of female costuming and the inverse proportion between intelligence and cleavage in science fiction.
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gotta agree there the stuff been so sad i didn't even watch it pirated.
THIS. When you can't give it away for free (even though you're not trying), you know you've done something wrong.
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However, I'm seeing the opposite effect W.R.T. movies. All the latest crap Hollywood is putting out, such as Stupid Wars: The Latest Junk -- it is SO bad that it isn't even worth pirating in the first place!
Yeah, I'm old too. I understand. I was once a hipster so I got all my movies from French foreign film festivals, but now, not even that can save me.
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If you're not pirating these movies, how do you know they're so bad? Did you pay to see them?
Because basically the whole world is shouting these are bad films and the previous two gave form.
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/sarcasm Gee, if only I had mentioned in the original post that there are enough YouTubers reviewing movies that the general consensus is that most of these movies are shit. Oh wait, I did !
Since you are too lazy to search YouTube:
i.e.
MauLer's review -- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: An Unbridled Rage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
MisAnthro Pony's review -- The Last Jedi And The Fall Of Star Wars: Part 1 - The Idiocy Awakens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
RedLetterMedia's review -- Half in the Bag Episo
5.2x10^-4 Percent (Score:2)
1700 out of 327 million, that's a 5.2x10^-4% chance of getting sued. I like my torrents, I'll take my chances.
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Test that VPN (Score:2)
Ensure any VPN fault results in your ip still staying hidden.
Someone is (Score:2)
Use a quality VPN that does not show your ip no matter the OS, settings.
A VPN for your entire network so nothing can detect, show, induce an ISP ip to get discovered.
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He was an hero!
NOT your usual suspects (Score:5, Interesting)
In case you were thinking the big hollywood studios are behind this, they are not.
These two companies are part of the adult industry, never would have thought that they would have been the biggest driving force behind copyright cases.
Adult Industry (Score:2)
The article mentions the majority of these are in the adult industry.
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Who the hell is paying for this stuff?
3 strikes ? (Score:1)
My guess (Score:2)
It's more profitable to sue folks pirating adult films than it is to actually SELL adult films in this day and age.
The film itself is produced as bait knowing there will be lots of opportunities to sue folks who download it.
If not, then the firms themselves create those opportunities by uploading said content and waiting for the inevitable downloads to start.