A central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) and this blog is that the copyright industry is never satisfied. Now matter how long the term of copyright, publishers a…
Also just ignore that core routers are super specialized to moving packets as fast as possible. Having to inspect every packet would ruin them, and literally nuke service speeds across the country.
I would like to once again thank the motion picture and recording industry associations for their contributions to both the sophistication of media piracy and the quality of content.
Without their efforts, we would probably all still be playing Russian Roulette on Limewire for a low quality copy of Zoolander. The first person to record a movie on Betamax would probably shit themselves if they could have seen what could be accomplished with some arrogance, incompetence, and blind greed.
There's no doubt that you guys are the real MVP when it comes to promoting media piracy.
The anti-piracy industry couldn't be more Mickey Mouse if it were run by the Marx Brothers.
AKA greed. Why license your content to Netflix when you can have your own streaming service and lock your viewers into your piddly little hoard of content?
Just how many streaming providers are there today? That number likely changes almost daily at this point…
The studios should release their own tracker with a premium file and send everyone a quarterly bill who uses it. I would pay it if it were reasonable... it's only extra money for them.
Of course they do. They don't want to pay for it. They just want it done at no extra cost to them. Just like copyright strikes against internet users.
I worked for a ISP and we started demanding money to roll a truck to hand those shitty things to our customers. We would tell the customer that they have no idea who they are and if they don't respond they never will. We stopped getting so many strikes. The absolute shittiest ones I spoke with were the ones with the Grateful Dead's lead singers family trust.
None of them ever paid for us to roll a truck. None of them ever served a subpoena.
I remember the times when you could rent a videotape or cassette tape and then copy it to yours or even record it straight from tv or radio and everyone was earning decent money. How it happened that we turned culture into bureaucracy ?
"Hey there customer, if you want internet access on our network (the only one available in your area), you have to install our intermediary certificate on your machine!"
It's not the same. There's all those lawyers specialized in copyright. Companies that track down "piracy". Then there's rights owners like the Disney corporation or JK Rowling. Rights management firms. Online platforms like Getty or Adobe.
That's not exactly how it works. There is no specific core, all web traffic doesn't go through one centralized location; it gets routed through the most direct route on each if these routers' routing tables