Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
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Re: Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
#2Today UK has one of the largest piracy markets in the western world. Love it!
Re: Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
#3When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription. I would happily pay a few quid for a movie if I could download a high quality DRM free file. Piracy is not only free but provides a better product, a file you can do whatever you want with and watch anywhere.
Personally I don’t pirate, I prefer getting second hand physical media (funnily enough the movie studios miss out on any money there as well).
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#4I don't know. TPB seems less active than ever. I know that's not UK specific, but does not bode well nonetheless.
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#5when digital "property" can be returned for a refund, sold or transfered at will, works on any
operating system, is insurable, then , it will be in a position where it will be respected enough to
get public suport for inclusion as real property.
idea: digital property could be uniquely insurable, as a loss could be re-issued withe same serial #
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#6No one wants to steal any content, they view content elsewhere due to ludicrous rights management systems on digital video content. Simplify the system to be closer to music and you wouldn't have any piracy. People aren't going to subscribe to 5-10 services monthly just to watch the latest shows.
Until that happens, expect piracy, it won't ever be stopped.
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#7I have a simple rule: I don't pay money for drm. I buy a lot of games on gog.com, itch.io, and get classical music through Hyperion records. Every creative professional I know gets about ten pence a year to live on after half a lifetime of (post-grad) education and is a very dedicated and intelligent professional who is either supported by the church of England, teaching on the side to pay the bills, another charitable organisation, or is independently wealthy. Record labels really don't provide much for either end of the pipeline and I think that most people in society recognise that.
Re: Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
#8No one wants to steal any content, they view content elsewhere due to ludicrous rights management systems on digital video content. Simplify the system to be closer to music and you wouldn't have any piracy. People aren't going to subscribe to 5-10 services monthly just to watch the latest shows. Until that happens, expect piracy, it won't ever be stopped.
>No one wants to steal any content, they view content elsewhere due to ludicrous rights management systems on digital video content.
Actually I think they do. The median salary is quite low in the UK so there are a lot of people for whom piracy is an economic act rather than being about DRM.
Re: Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
#9When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription. I would happily pay a few quid for a movie if I could download a high quality DRM free file. Piracy is not only free but provides a better product, a file you can do whatever you want with and watch anywhere. Personally I don’t pirate, I…
Neither of those services are successful.
They don't make any money. They are, essentially, only useful learning experiences in what not to do.
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#10I never saw those piracy messages in my country but I still remember 'the It crowd''s version of it:
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?feature=shared