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Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by simias »

mhd wrote: post #6
mahrain wrote: post #4

Same goes for Holland, this, and TV is very unreliable and a year behind the USA. Plus movies are usually released a few months after the USA.

Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...

Ditto for France. I assume it's mostly true for all european countries, with maybe the exception of the UK? At least they probably don't have the dubbing issue...

Also, we do have the playstation store (well... used to) but all the movies there are dubbed and we can't get the original version (with or without subtitles). I'll stick with bittorent for now...

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by kahawe »

mhd wrote: post #6
mahrain wrote: post #4

Same goes for Holland, this, and TV is very unreliable and a year behind the USA. Plus movies are usually released a few months after the USA.

Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...

And a lot of videos on youtube are blocked as well and you get that "Sorry, not available in your country" link.

I always cringe hard and scream inside when I see that since I am trying to view a link online on a website so it should not make ANY difference which country I am coming from. Please keep your pre-historic distribution and business model out of the web!!!

Doing something like that should just be banned by law.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by _delirium »

kahawe wrote: post #12
mhd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...

And a lot of videos on youtube are blocked as well and you get that "Sorry, not available in your country" link. I always cringe hard and scream inside when I see that since I am trying to view a link online on a website so it should not make ANY difference which country I am coming from. Please keep your pre-historic distribution and business model out of the web!!! Doing something like that should just be banned by…

That was really annoying to me even as an American as well (though I currently live in Denmark). When I embed Youtube videos in things like blog posts, I want to know that all my readers can view them, not just me, but Youtube won't tell me which videos are region-restricted. I ended up having to use a proxy in another country to test for myself, so I could avoid unknowingly embedding US-only videos.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by Nate75Sanders »

mhd wrote: post #6
mahrain wrote: post #4

Same goes for Holland, this, and TV is very unreliable and a year behind the USA. Plus movies are usually released a few months after the USA.

Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...

If you're willing to pay that much, sounds like you just need to grab a $20/month server in the US and use it as a VPN endpoint, then use whatever services in the US that you like.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by ThomPete »

There is no need to rationalize why you use Bittorrent, there is no argument to win and nothing to defend.

It's not stealing, it's not not stealing it's just a fact that people will continue to use bittorrents as long as there is too much friction to get it legally.

Bittorrent will be around as long as the content owners insist on localizing copyright and not offering their content to a globally oriented customer base.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by yason »

And that's why the European counterparts of MAFIAA shouldn't be able to appeal to lost sales in many of these countries because don't have any fucking sales to lose.

I've long advocated a fair-use rule that where a copyrighted work in some format isn't readily for sale in some geographical area, then people in that area should have the legal right to produce a copy of it in that format for themselves. The format is relevant because if people want CDs or uncompressed FLAC albums but they can only buy a lousy DRM-ridden 128Kbit/s MP3 instead, it shouldn't count.

Same goes with old music or films: if nobody's selling, people have the legal right to copy. If the copyright holder decides to start selling again, the legal right to copy goes away. Then the longevity of a copyright would matter much less.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by rrrazdan »

StudyAnimal wrote: post #9

As an English speaker in Germany I was particularly interested in using things like iTunes (which is available here) to access TV. What do you know, it is exclusively German language content. And it is also only released when it airs in Germany rather than when it first airs in the US or the UK. Where is the logic there? If I wanted to get German language TV when it airs on TV, I would just watch TV. The whole system…

The whole system makes eminent sense. Content that has been permitted by the owner is released in your country, when the owner permits. If you are resort to piracy because of this, you are still stealing.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by asymmetric »

Nate75Sanders wrote: post #15
mhd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...

If you're willing to pay that much, sounds like you just need to grab a $20/month server in the US and use it as a VPN endpoint, then use whatever services in the US that you like.

For Netflix, he'd also need a US credit card.

Re: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

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Post by chokma »

_delirium wrote: post #14
kahawe wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And a lot of videos on youtube are blocked as well and you get that "Sorry, not available in your country" link. I always cringe hard and scream inside when I see that since I am trying to view a link online on a website so it should not make ANY difference which country I am coming from. Please keep your pre-historic distribution and business model out of the web!!! Doing something like that should just be banned by…

That was really annoying to me even as an American as well (though I currently live in Denmark). When I embed Youtube videos in things like blog posts, I want to know that all my readers can view them, not just me , but Youtube won't tell me which videos are region-restricted. I ended up having to use a proxy in another country to test for myself, so I could avoid unknowingly embedding US-only videos.

And even if the content is available today, that does not mean it will be available tomorrow.

Recently I found a new music video posted in the official channel of a record distribution company (nuclearblast), which a couple of days later was blocked because one of the big music labels intervened. By now, they seem to have resolved their differences and the video is available again here - but for how long?

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