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oh look a troll, using a brand new account too, what a great way to add to the conversation.
> oh look a troll, using a brand new account too, what a great way to add to the conversation. Calm down, we're not on reddit. Having a different opinion doesn't make one a troll.
He's outright telling us that he's a troll.
Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios & music labels. I'll try to explain as good as I can. Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO & Spotify customer. Pirating is a much b…
"I'm paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently." Nope, it is even funnier because most probably you're paying more than US citizen. 1eur>1usd on exchange market (and it is a long trend) and - correct me if I'm wrong - price levels are the same for US and EU (ie. 9usd in US, 9eur in EU)?
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Intent matters. The vast majority of people that buy a gun do not murder people. The vast majority of people that download iron_man.torrent only intend to do one thing with it.
If intent matters, then guns are doubly problematic. They are specifically designed to kill people. They have no other use or purpose.
The largest torrent search engine? No way, Google is still working fine for me
Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios & music labels. I'll try to explain as good as I can. Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO & Spotify customer. Pirating is a much b…
> you would expect that the legal alternatives would have content available for such hardware, but they rarely do. Nope, wouldn't expect that. It'll come slowly, and apparently very grudgingly. It took a decade or more to be able to get flac downloads commonly available. For years music downloads were low bit rate crap mp3. Pirate it or buy the CD were the only options for quality. It was like they actively wanted us…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I'm paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently." Nope, it is even funnier because most probably you're paying more than US citizen. 1eur>1usd on exchange market (and it is a long trend) and - correct me if I'm wrong - price levels are the same for US and EU (ie. 9usd in US, 9eur in EU)?
Add VAT to the mix and things even out again.
Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios & music labels. I'll try to explain as good as I can. Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO & Spotify customer. Pirating is a much b…
"I'm paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently." Nope, it is even funnier because most probably you're paying more than US citizen. 1eur>1usd on exchange market (and it is a long trend) and - correct me if I'm wrong - price levels are the same for US and EU (ie. 9usd in US, 9eur in EU)?
Tax rates on netflix vary, in both rate and whether they are collected at all.
The reason piracy is so popular is because it is free and because it's incredibly convenient, in that order. The convenience factor is basically, if you want some content (movie, game) it's a simple search and download away (streaming torrents seem to be gaining traction). No legal alternative offers this level of convenience. I suspect piracy will become harder for the average user due to three letter agencies makin…
It's much, much more than that. It's the only way to get an acceptable product. I have ALSO pirated everything I ever bought until very recently. DVDs included region forcing, and forced, unskippable adverts and copyright notices. Netflix, .mkvs and .mp4s just have the programme and titles. Usually someone, somewhere, has put effort into making a good quality rip saving me the time doing so, along with synchronised a…
Succinctly summed up by this rather old image: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4369403959_fe90464b27_o....
Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios & music labels. I'll try to explain as good as I can. Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO & Spotify customer. Pirating is a much b…
It's worse as a Chinese citizen, buying is still an option, we have none, even through technical workarounds. I used to be a Netflix/Hulu subscriber before they've banned proxy access to their content. Lately I tried to buy various TV streaming services but they did a great job in banning VPNs. This is where I stopped believing they have a good faith.
