Forum - View topicFilm Studios Reveal Plans to Lobby for Anti-Piracy Site Blocking
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omiya
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Like blocking the mpaa.org site? 
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Greed1914
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I guess my main concern would be if the rights holders would use something like this responsibly. Existing mechanisms on sites, like Youtube, are easy to abuse because the site avoids its own potential liability by staying out of it, and someone can make a copyright claim and/or strike for things they simply don't like. There are currently no repercussions for doing that wrongfully or repeatedly.
I could see something similar happening with this. Content company doesn't like a site for some reason, sends a take down notice to the ISP, and the ISP avoids getting involved by doing it automatically and leaving them to deal with it through legal avenues. |
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Hoppy800
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They won't, especially Toei and Nintendo. |
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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
 SubscriberExempt from Grammar Rules Posts: 612 Location: inland US west, pretty rural |
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And another lobbyist gets paid for doing what they always do. This is not news. Companies can already complain to ISPs and content sites, threaten lawsuits, etc. More laws would be silly, or harmful, IMHO. I think this is all a snore.
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Wyvern
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Letting big corporations block what we can see on the internet seems like an idea that would have no unintended consequences whatsoever.
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seoulman1985
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Perhaps as a tangent, not that I see anybody in the government thinking about this, there should instead be laws or ideas passed to bring up media preservation.
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MarshalBanana
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Escaflowne2001
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Anyone that uses these sites can usually find away around any such bans. The UK never really managed to block The Pirate Bay before it shutdown despite "banning it".
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Sheenoobuu
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Even if this does eventually go somewhere, personally, it won't affect my views or watching habits. I just use sites like that to watch stuff that I was pretty sure I wouldn't care about anyway.
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Rouward
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If they're planning to block pirate sites, they should made all legal streaming sites available globally or only for single country. Currently, only Netflix and Disney+ are our only options in SEA region whereas every other streaming sites are blocked for absolutely no reason and even just visiting the main sites are not available for legal reason, yet all the other regions (except only SEA region) including the whole africa, the middle-east, and India are legally available to stream.
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jdnation
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Sounds to me like they're drumming up a villain to explain their financial losses to their shareholders for making tons of things nobody actually wants to see, let alone pirating... The Marvels etc. didn't lose money because people watched it without paying. Also the streaming subscriptions have trained their own customers to simply wait for movies to hit the services they pay for. Only the good big stuff will make money at the Box Office.
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7985 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Sounds like they're just desperate to leach blood from that stone after years of COVID and a writers strike killing profit margins. It's not like there were really any good movies recently worth pirating anyway. Regardless, I don't pirate domestic movies. I can always find those on disc or streaming legally later,
Sometimes, pirating is the only way for someone who doesn't live in Japan or speak the language to see an anime film though. I'd hate to see that final last ditch option closed off. I can and have imported them, but that's really only an option when they have English subtitles which doesn't happen too often. |
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Takkun4343
 Posts: 1503 Location: Englewood, Ohio |
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"Kill one pirate site, and two more will pop up to take its place..."
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quoss
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I've subscribed to every anime streaming service out there and right now subscribe to none. Asking money for localizations instead of translations, literally no subs at all for lyrics, and clunky UIs is whack. Piracy until legality fixes itself.
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i got the shivers!
 Posts: 75 Location: Brazil |
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Meanwhile, everyone not in America is laughing because we're already used to using VPNs and other methods to bypass content blocking and internet censorship
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