New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday • Hacker News Board

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Post by enraged_camel » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 8:32 PM UTC

smtddr wrote: post #184

beedogs wrote: post #155

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All of those angry comments frankly seem almost like astroturfing.

Oh, not just seems like. It is. I baited them all. Notice how they completely dismiss my point of view with terms like "entitled","absurd","unwilling to pay",etc. and don't even begin to acknowledge the problem with the delay between cable-tv and legal internet availability. This pretty much happens with every major change that disturbs the status quo cash cow, but the change ultimately happens anyway ;) And with tha…

>>Oh, not just seems like. It is. I baited them all.

So you're basically admitting to trolling? Nice.

>>and don't even begin to acknowledge the problem with the delay between cable-tv and legal internet availability.

We acknowledged it. We also pointed out that it is not a valid justification for you or anyone to pirate said content, because nobody is entitled to instant access to stuff that comes out. I don't know how to put it more simply than that.

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Post by rohern » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 11:57 PM UTC

corresation wrote: post #192

rohern wrote: post #187

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This is exactly my point. If you grew up in a time when all you needed to do to watch a TV show online was google "watch Game of Thrones online" and go to the first link, you would feel much more relaxed about it than you obviously do. I made the age distinction because many older think piracy means that these people are using filesharing and bittorrent to watch these shows. These technologies are obsolete when it co…

If you grew up in a time when all you needed to do to watch a TV show online was google "watch Game of Thrones online" and go to the first link, you would feel much more relaxed about it than you obviously do. That takes me to a site that has endless scamware ads, tries to get me to download a hilarious dubious "codec" from a third party site, has various false-starts while it solicits memberships, etc. That is easy?…

Obviously I am not going to link you to sites where you can watch without these issues, but the third link that comes up on Google is one of them. Visit it with Firefox with Adblock installed and you'll have no problems. This is extremely common practice.

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Post by corresation » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 1:07 AM UTC

rohern wrote: post #202

corresation wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you grew up in a time when all you needed to do to watch a TV show online was google "watch Game of Thrones online" and go to the first link, you would feel much more relaxed about it than you obviously do. That takes me to a site that has endless scamware ads, tries to get me to download a hilarious dubious "codec" from a third party site, has various false-starts while it solicits memberships, etc. That is easy?…

Obviously I am not going to link you to sites where you can watch without these issues, but the third link that comes up on Google is one of them. Visit it with Firefox with Adblock installed and you'll have no problems. This is extremely common practice.

Maybe it's regional, but third site here is another B.S. site that tries to get you to install their custom "downloader", etc.

It is hardly a common practice, and such sites usually operate on the edges of criminality, with all that such entails (scamware, trojans, etc. There is no honor among thieves and all). Now there are a lot of very ignorant people who think it's great, completely oblivious to the fact that they've completely compromised their PC.

Which really is the point. You can talk about how "easy" it is if you have all the time in the world to filter and find appropriate sites between take downs, and avoid all of the bullshit that comes along with them. I'd rather just watch it on HBO, and have zero troubles with that. The other guy referred to a show that you can buy an iTunes season pass, which is how I watched the last season of Mad Men. Zero risk or hassle, and episodes appear after one ten second purchase. Time is money.