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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

Opponents say SOPA-like proposal would block plenty of legitimate websites.

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jmagnani

jmagnani

Which legimate ones are they referring to?

Eiji

Eiji

The world is full of pirates:

  1. They “steal” an untranslated product and dare to translate it for free
  2. Other “pirates” are downloading it as they don’t know or are not comfortable with the original language
  3. Yet other pirates are creating a dubbed theme songs i.e. not only translating but finding a best words/sentences to match song’s rhythm, some of that have even it’s own custom video montage, so they do not even look like the original ones and then the only “copy” is instrumental version of some music

Meanwhile a “legal” actions of corporations:

  1. Adding a free music they bought to YouTube’s content ID to extort protection money from YouTubers
  2. Don’t reacting when people from their country are singing their songs on white background or creating their own alternative stories using everything from the source, but at the same time they are accusing people/groups from other countries for fun dubbing
  3. Using so-called copyright trolling by patent the simplest things in fact stopping the whole industry from progressing and destroying companies

Instead they could:

  1. Treat everyone equally and with respect at least for the free marketing while they product was not even on the local market
  2. Simply adding their products to local market with proper dubbing. People are not stupid i.e. if they would do same anyway then they would of course take money for what they do.
  3. Cooperate with local communities and support them while simply asking for removing of specific products when they would be (finally) added to the market

For sure we talk a lot about corporation copyrights, but almost nobody mentions YouTube crazy rules that clearly violate the legal basis of civilized countries, i.e. “the law does not apply retroactively”.

Some corporations “dare” to talk about money they are “losing” because some group are sharing a translated content while they even not release a subbed product on local market. 100% of 0 is still 0, but it’s not obvious for everyone.

Every time I hear anything about “pirating” topics I remind:

  1. A case of DRMs like Denuvo - it’s insane that legal players are “pirates”, because the DRM is slowing down the “legal” product
  2. Hundreds of really popular series like Death Note that were never dubbed to Polish language - that’s said … I even didn’t heard about a legal DVDs with just subs on Polish market. You would say that’s normal today. Sure, but in Japan there is no problem, so why it’s a problem in other countries?
  3. Dropping entire Unreal series and removing it from all shops - they just forced fans to pirate their products

Here is the modus operandi of corporations:

  1. Don’t release products on local markets, because there are too many pirates
  2. Blaming everyone except themselves for not getting money from local markets
  3. Attacking fans and fan groups by calling them “pirates” for providing translations and doing marketing for their products for free

All of that just to release their product on one streaming platform with just subs. Who cares about dubbing? Who cares about legal physical copies.

I heard that a corporation who have rights for Oshi no Ko used one of companies they own to attack using law site wbijam.pl, because they want to sell said TV serie on some streaming platform with subs. For sure attacking a site for fans which is known for long, long years even from childhood by community would definitely make fans think that’s worth to spend money for said title.

I’m owner of a legal copy of all Once Upon a Time... DVDs with Polish dubbing. I definitely prefer a Japanese series called Hataraku Saibou, but I still don’t have it’s DVDs … Why? Because in Poland everyone is a “pirate”. Also lots of TV series that I saw in Poland with dubbing have no DVD release. I don’t understand one thing … They have everything to at least allow people to buy a DVD on order. Why they can’t do that? Are they just lazy or what? I could understand 10 or 20 years ago, but today such things could be fully automated …

I’m definitely ok for requiring ISPs to block “piracy” websites as long as we talk about the sites of companies that are (in fact) forcing people to pirate their products if they want to use it. That would definitely help. However what they want to do would in fact destroy fan groups making their products less popular. When seeing loses they would put more money in marketing. When that would not return viewers then they would reduce costs even more. I recommend everyone to find out a work environment and requirements of animators and many, many other people who could be fired in future for said cost reduction.

You know what’s funniest? Please read how pirates lives today. In short “fair trade” is just a marketing for corporations. In fact rich people are using poor people in Africa, giving them guns and ordering them to attack ships. They would return it untouched if ransom would be paid or all the products including ship would go on black market. In short rich people are attacking poor people in various ways and claiming to be the only good ones where they are the source of the most world problems.

Conclusions? Instead of making of deals reach people fights with each other using poor people. Brilliant sentences in theory and racial discrimination in practice - that’s how the entire world works. I wonder if next generations would be in fact forced to have same life or maybe we would finally realize that only we are the only side that’s loosing in this stupid “game of appearances”.

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