The Commercial Court was told yesterday that as many as 1.3 million people in the State may be involved in illegally accessing the work of six film and TV studios through various streaming websites.
VinLieger wrote: » There is no sign of them doing so
ThisRegard wrote: » It's my point, and they have no reason to. They make TV and provide a service to the UK licence payer. They've no obligation to make it accessible to anyone outside the UK.
WoolyJumper wrote: » This is probably the one little win the ordinary person has over billion dollar industries....even at that movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.
ThisRegard wrote: » Yeah, but I think it's a different scenario though than movie rights spread across the different providers.
silverharp wrote: » dvd? cute , this isn't the retro forum :pac:
wakka12 wrote: » Why is this just about Ireland I don't get it? Is ireland illegally streaming at a disproportionately high level? Im sure tens of millions of british people download movies online illegally
Decuc500 wrote: » Serious question. Can you not just buy the dvd box set if you want to pay for it?
jackinthemix94 wrote: » Some people on this thread are behaving as though entertainment content is a god given right and that they should have access to it and that it's perfectly fine to stream or use kodi or anything else. it is against the law Rationalize it all you like but you're breaking the law and these companies have the legal right, and some would say an obligation to shareholders, to start to crack down on people who consistently engage in copyright infringement. Just because something isn't available here doesn't mean it's acceptable to illegal download or stream it either. If you don't want to pay for it, don't watch it. Go for a walk or something, I don't know.
oneilla wrote: » http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/over-1m-viewers-could-have-access-cut-over-illegal-streaming-1.2965805 Six US movie studios are taking Irish internet providers to court to force them to block illegal streaming websites. Fair enough but 1.3million is nearly a quarter of the population. Seems like a lot of people. Helluva attention grabbing headline.
jackinthemix94 wrote: » Some people on this thread are behaving as though entertainment content is a god given right and that they should have access to it and that it's perfectly fine to stream or use kodi or anything else.it is against the law Rationalize it all you like but you're breaking the law and these companies have the legal right, and some would say an obligation to shareholders, to start to crack down on people who consistently engage in copyright infringement. Just because something isn't available here doesn't mean it's acceptable to illegal download or stream it either. If you don't want to pay for it, don't watch it. Go for a walk or something, I don't know.
end of the road wrote: » or just click on a site that has it for free and watch/download/stream away. times have changed, if the content is worth paying for and is easily availible/accessible people will pay. if it's not then they won't and that is just tough on the companies.
VinLieger wrote: » Please point to me the law that I am breaking by streaming a tv show or movie?
Wang Kerr wrote: » It's a hotly debated subject, and people say that they are not downloading, only streaming, so no harm no foul. But, the company that you are streaming from doesn't own the copyright to the material...So they are breaking the law, and ipso facto, so are you
Yourself isit wrote: » The "people will pay for content that they think is worth paying for" argument is nonsense. It's popular and generally good content that is streamed.
VinLieger wrote: » Ipso facto..... so what you are saying is you can't point me to the law I am breaking?
Wang Kerr wrote: » Ignorance of the law is no defence, it's not up to me to take you by the hand..
TheDoc wrote: » Normal merry go round again. Blocks put in against some pirating sites, a thousand proxies pop up. Anyone serious about downloading has already got the likes of VPN's and things in place that totally circumvent this, and people like me use uses newsgroups, that have been in existence for over 10 years and never get touched. Be a nice PR win for the studios involved, but typically, nothing will change. Still trying to fight off the changing times and consumer trends to ensure the gravy train keeps on rolling. They want to ensure the profit margins stay the same, and its easy to paint a devil being the cause of cutbacks, redundancies and less imagination and risk from studios, to blame pirating, as opposed to the collective, intellectual brainfart occuring in Hollywood at present
VinLieger wrote: » The reason popular and good content is streamed from these sites here is because there is simply no way to pay to access the vast majority of it via an on demand service, for game of thrones you need a sky subscription and more and more people are cutting the cable every day, for most other shows you have to wait several weeks or months and in some cases a year for our tv channels to catch up, and still then you need to sit down at a specific time or DVR the show and have no access to an on demand service.
TheDoc wrote: » Still trying to fight off the changing times and consumer trends to ensure the gravy train keeps on rolling. They want to ensure the profit margins stay the same, and its easy to paint a devil being the cause of cutbacks, redundancies and less imagination and risk from studios, to blame pirating, as opposed to the collective, intellectual brainfart occuring in Hollywood at present
smelly sock wrote: » The Film and music industry is run on greed and with the sole purpose of fleecing decent hard working people for the sake of a short time frame of entertainment.
ThisRegard wrote: » But I think people just have to accept that's how it is. HBO, Showtime etc invest in good TV to attract people to their services, they don't make it so that every provider can initially carry it. The issue as I see it is that there's a certain, vocal, element that feel they're entitled to see these shows immediately, even if they don't subscribe to the providers who have produced it. Why do people feel that movie studios aren't entitled to make a profit? Without such an incentive then you won't have these shows. Straight out of the leftie we're entitled to everything free playbook.
seamus wrote: » Would happily pay 5 euro for one of the latest movies in full HD and smoothly streamed.
