Google Prepares Piracy Crackdown

[Hashime]

Damn, I use these so called "Piracy Sites" as a convenient way to distribute some legitimate content, as well as get legitimate content. Not all torrents are illegal.
Also, my school has a direct download hub, I can get anything without even going online, not that I do...

 

[drbarno]

Remember kids, if a film has a few minutes of anti-piracy message (which only exist because people pirate said movies) that makes it perfectly OK to steal it!

You're missing the point there. What he's saying is not that it's okay to pirate the DVD, it's that the anti-piracy things they place on their do nothing to stop the pirate's, and just annoy the paying customers more.

 

[Faladorian]

Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.

3&4) You could easily replace "Piracy" with "Malware" and that statement would be just as true. Should we just stop trying to do anything about Malware?

Remember kids, if a film has a few minutes of anti-piracy message (which only exist because people pirate said movies) that makes it perfectly OK to steal it!

Malware isn't that big of a problem for me (i have a mac, but i spend most of my time on the windows partition, but even then i never get viruses. Also, yes. Because I find that Virus-hunting software will always cause you more problems than viruses, and I've had viruses delete windows before. Viruses are the price you pay for using an open-source OS, and anti-virus software makes your computer slow and chances are one is going to get through and hurt your computer anyway.

Also, it's a hyperbolic chart. Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie. It applies with games, too (except the good game-bad game ratio is a lot better than the good movie-bad movie ratio... god so many terrible movies)

 

[KEM10]

Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie.

I've found it is easier to torrent a film than go to the basement and attempt to remember where I placed that film in the box or shelves of films. Also, when you play a DVD on the computer you can't just slide the tracking bar across, you have to click next and go through their designed checkpoints.

 

[Faladorian]

Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie.

I've found it is easier to torrent a film than go to the basement and attempt to remember where I placed that film in the box or shelves of films. Also, when you play a DVD on the computer you can't just slide the tracking bar across, you have to click next and go through their designed checkpoints.

Says who? Most media players have a sliding bar that you can slide around much quicker than two-arrows-pointing-to-the-right-times-thirty-two. And I'm talking about if you don't already own this movie, it's easier to torrent it than to go rent it. If you already have it there's no point.

 

[newwiseman]

I just tried searching for 'Muse Discography' on a random school computer and Google suggested I add the word torrent.

I loled.

 

[Danik93]

Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.

Insert CD?!

how old is this picture?

 

[captain underpants]

The problem people fail to understand is that this is another case of a company or government placing large and rich multinational companies before their actual consumers.

Yeah. If I was giving them any money, I'd be right pissed off. I've never given a cent to Google, nor will I. I'll switch search engines in a heartbeat, too, if Google stops serving my purposes. Google needs to realise that there's no loyalty on the net.

 

[madlink]

First, I have to say Faladorian that was hilarious. IMO, this whole thing with Google seems much more like a publicity stunt, it makes Google look good, a growing super-power working to help stop evil. It puts the company name in the papers, on the TV and of course something to talk about. Regarding whether it's effective in making an impact on piracy that's all secondary.

 

[Faladorian]

Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.

Insert CD?!

how old is this picture?

it says DVD...

 

[Danik93]

Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.

Insert CD?!

how old is this picture?

it says DVD...

*sigh* Fine you don't need a DVD anymore! VLC is magical!

 

[Faladorian]

Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.

Insert CD?!

how old is this picture?

it says DVD...

*sigh* Fine you don't need a DVD anymore! VLC is magical!

Yeah I know but a surprising amount of people rent from RedBox, which dispenses DVDs and sometimes Blu-Ray. Although, I honestly don't see why that's preferable to just renting it off of your TV lol