Maybe the entertainment industry should go back to making money on quality live performances and theatrical events (large-screen IMAX etc.) and stop trying to control all the low-res streaming video on the Internet for nickels and dimes?
Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say
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#22The same is true for Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and probably other countries in the region. Most people there find it stupid and a "sign of weakness" to pay for digital content. Not only media, but software as well.
Bravo!
Re: Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say
#23The same is true for Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and probably other countries in the region. Most people there find it stupid and a "sign of weakness" to pay for digital content. Not only media, but software as well.
Kinopoisk and Amediateka (legal places to watch content) grew a lot before 2022. Netflix launch there was a success too. Now there's no Netflix and shows are being pulled off Kinopoisk.
I guess there's not a lot of paid content in Iraq too.
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#24“Illegal streaming” assumes that upholding the rights of foreign copyright holding megacorps is anywhere in the top 10,000 priorities for the Iraqi government. US law is not world law. This is like China saying that US websites are engaging in “illegal criticism of China”.
Well congress approved 500 million for negative coverage of China. So yes, US websites are even paid for shaming and criticizing China (often based on false information) and our asian enemies (like Japan in the 80s with all the Japan bashing) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/08/01/l...
So what? It is still not illegal though, is it?
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#25The bit that really stands out
> And since more than a third of all Iraqis are under 14, a considerable ...
Re: Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say
#26“Illegal streaming” assumes that upholding the rights of foreign copyright holding megacorps is anywhere in the top 10,000 priorities for the Iraqi government. US law is not world law. This is like China saying that US websites are engaging in “illegal criticism of China”.
Well congress approved 500 million for negative coverage of China. So yes, US websites are even paid for shaming and criticizing China (often based on false information) and our asian enemies (like Japan in the 80s with all the Japan bashing) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/08/01/l...
It's a very old tradition:
>The Spanish-American War, what boosters called a “splendid little war,” began in 1898. … President McKinley sent a warship to Cuba as a precaution, but in February 1898 that ship, the USS Maine, blew up in Havana, killing 250 U.S. sailors. The cause of the explosion was unknown — and it would later be revealed to have been an accident — but both Hearst and Pulitzer published a cable from the captain of the battleship to the assistant secretary of the navy, Theodore Roosevelt, informing him that the disaster was no accident. (The cable was later revealed to be a fake.)
Jill Lepore, September 2018. These Truths: A History of the United States.
Re: Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say
#27The US government should be subsidizing it, best propaganda there is.
It is?
Re: Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say
#28“Illegal streaming” assumes that upholding the rights of foreign copyright holding megacorps is anywhere in the top 10,000 priorities for the Iraqi government. US law is not world law. This is like China saying that US websites are engaging in “illegal criticism of China”.
Well congress approved 500 million for negative coverage of China. So yes, US websites are even paid for shaming and criticizing China (often based on false information) and our asian enemies (like Japan in the 80s with all the Japan bashing) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/08/01/l...
> Well congress approved 500 million for negative coverage of China.
Can I get a pointer to this?
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#29“Illegal streaming” assumes that upholding the rights of foreign copyright holding megacorps is anywhere in the top 10,000 priorities for the Iraqi government. US law is not world law. This is like China saying that US websites are engaging in “illegal criticism of China”.
I’ve done my fair share of torrenting and the like. Never once I have been under the illusion that I have some kind of special right to someone else’s unique combinations of bits.
If the internet wasn’t around people would still be copying VHSs and DVDs. Just because the internet makes it easier to copy doesn’t mean you get a special pass.
I did it for the same reason the Iraqis do it, it’s cheaper, easier, and at times unavailable otherwise.
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#30I remember reading about Soviet era pedaling of American films in Soviet countries. I guess that was piracy too…
I wonder how many places there are where there are few if any viable legal options?