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I'd pay if they Try being in not-the-USA and paying for content. Add "Linux" in there and you can forget about it.
So you're saying its up to content makers to support every niche OS, otherwise niche OS users are entitled to steal their work?
For a news site frequented by software engineers, many of whom receive six figure salaries related to the creation and sale of software, this feels in very bad taste. Movie staff and music artists deserve to have their copyright respected. If you don't like it, just don't watch/listen. It's plainly simple.
if "Movie staff and music artists" feel like they aren't being paid enough, they should lobby the industry and demand more money . Recording artists earn less than 10% of album sales. The industry pays $20 million to have Johnny Moviestar in their movie. But somehow there's not enough for "movie staff" ? That's not a problem attributable to piracy.
That's fine to me, in fact I see it as a good challenge. Ideally, streaming monetization is good enough for content creators to be relatively happy, while simultaneously both preserving the ease of access and wide choice that have made streaming services / tubes popular with consumers, and allowing for a viable business. Perhaps its impossible to completely have it all ways, but if it can be done, it might reduce the influence of the current middleman, the "old media industry", and all of its ills. This to me would be win / win / win.
Unfortunately, the Pirate Bay isn't the way to pursue this. While the Pirate Bay certainly has revenue (via web page advertisements), it certainly doesn't seem to even make a pretense of compensating content creators. That's a no-no in my book.
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There is no business usecase for movies and music (with some small exceptions for ads, but nothing like enterprise software). So, by your criteria, they just shouldn't receive copyright protection because their product targets consumers? How does that make any sense?
Have you ever listened to the radio, gone to a theater, been to a nightclub or music venue, watched a movie on television? Of course there is a business use case for movies and music. A theater or TV station could pirate movies and show them for profit. A nightclub or DJ service or radio station that plays songs is running a business based on that music. You asked "how would you feel if someone violated the GPL". My…
If you really believe that you should read this article by a developer who ran an experiment on pirating his own game [1].
94% of day 1 users had pirated the game and were not contributing to the fixed costs of generating the IP. Not all users were going to pay full price, but the developer could have run discounts later to capture most of those users. This was a DRM-free game with a demo, so there were none of the typical excuses for pirating.
http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...
It seems a lot of the magic behind this comes from Peerflix - a node.js library for streaming torrents. This is mostly a CLI wrapper for searching piratebay, parsing the results, and then streaming using peerflix. https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead: https://github.com/t3chnoboy/thepiratebay That said, great usage of cheerio for parsing the returned HTML…
>I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead They didn't want their work broken due to a random unpublish?
That's probably not the reason.
Looks like the repo has been removed. Can anyone else confirm?
Search GitHub for clones using "pirateflix" to find the code:
Search GitHub for clones using "pirateflix" to find the code:
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> because otherwise when Google disappears I'll lose a lot of useful material I have access to at the moment. Could you explain that ? Why would google disappear ?
Lazy language, perhaps. Ultimately, I doubt that every piece of media that is currently on YouTube will be available for as long as I need them. That could be a year, or it could be fifty. For my purposes, if a video gets taken down, it's lost forever, I probably won't be able to find it again. But 'Guinea Pig Noises Loud Squeaking Sounds.mp4' lives on my hard-drive forever. ;) I feel the same way about webpages real…
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people worldwide have had their lives destroyed by this. For enjoying art. The War on the fans is immoral, hateful and wasteful. Those who enact it have stolen more from artists than anyone.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people worldwide have had their lives destroyed by this. For enjoying art. The War on the fans is immoral, hateful and wasteful. Those who enact it have stolen more from artists than anyone.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420963 and marked it off-topic.
So thread detachment, ok, but it is not off topic IMHO.
Your mod intuition is mighty fine tho', so I'll stop posting this thread and go write a book :)