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If GrooveShark pays royalty fees, I indirectly pay for music, but movies in my country are nearly unavailable, and only the elite can afford to go to the cinema or buy disks.
Aren't they getting this backwards? NAT takes multiple computers (i.e., users) and concentrates them into a single outwardly-visible IP.
Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay." Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" s…
Most of the content on tpb comes from the scene which does not condone p2p sharing. These people just have access to scene releases early and want to profit from it. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-slice-the-top-o... http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-are-the-new-kid... Sadly, the report does not list any of the usernames of those that they studied. However, if you just go to a category, pick a…
See:
http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1847
http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1920
and many others on that site.
I am shocked, shocked that piracy is not driven by music connoisseurs and film buffs eager to bring the artistic and cinematic masterworks of our times like Baby and Salt to poor wretches who can barely afford their $60 a month broadband and $500 computers to say nothing of their $0.99 music downloads.
Sounds like some good entrepreneurship going on there. These creative business models should be applauded. Some of them, if encouraged, may even lead to viable distribution business models for movies and music in the future.
I'm far from a fan of the big movie studios and their rigid distribution models, but I'm still unconvinced that annotating other people's content with spam portals is either (i) a particularly creative business model or (ii) a viable alternative revenue source for those creating and selling the content.
In fact, if you read the article, you will see a screenshot of one enterprising bit-torrent site offering monthly subscriptions. So even with all the hurdles thrown into their way by the current owners of the time-unlimited copyrights on these works, they still manage to do more than just spam portals.
I think that's to be applauded.
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Most of the content on tpb comes from the scene which does not condone p2p sharing. These people just have access to scene releases early and want to profit from it. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-slice-the-top-o... http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-are-the-new-kid... Sadly, the report does not list any of the usernames of those that they studied. However, if you just go to a category, pick a…
Yep. "The scene" really hates p2p in all its forms. They have been having inter-group drama over it for years. Pretty hilarious all round. See: http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1847 http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1920 and many others on that site.
People have been putting those little files in for years, the only thing that's changed is that now the destination sites are bittorrent trackers with adverts and the txt files are poorly spelled and ugly, whereas back in the day they'd have awesome ASCII art advertising the various scene dumpsites the release had been FXP'd through.
There are also cases where one username corresponds with a few IP addresses from the same ISP, which is known as the NAT [network address translation] effect. Aren't they getting this backwards? NAT takes multiple computers (i.e., users) and concentrates them into a single outwardly-visible IP.
Actually, it is a bad sentence, 'which is known as' is referring to 'cases'.
Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay." Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" s…
If they account for 75% of the downloads, then they are VERY important.