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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)
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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 year ago (30 children)

The article wonders why would anyone pirate, let us give him the reason:

  1. Ads
  2. Multiple streaming services costing many times more than food. With nothing to see except for re runs and rehashes of old content.
  3. Ads
  4. Rising prices for poor service and shit content.
  5. Ads
  6. Geoblocking
  7. Ads
  8. Low quality videos even if you are willing to pay just because you don't wish to use their specified player or browser. Why can't I stream it to VLC player without the overhead of a browser.
  9. Ads
  10. All the while the CEO and the executive of the companies raking in billions on the money they are saying charging us for the artists.
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Also wanna add:

  1. Missing subtitles in the language you want (looking at you apple tv without English subtitles on local language movies.)
  2. Ads
  3. Only the 2 random seasons in the middle of a TV show are available. And new seasons not added.
  4. Ads
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As a person who loves watching movies with subtitles, this is why I'm canceling Amazon Prime. The fuckers literally won't offer me English language subtitles for some flicks because I Iive outside the US.

I don't care if the movie itself is in English, why the hell can't I watch with subtitles in the same language as the film itself? Holy fuck.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

why the hell can't I watch with subtitles in the same language as the film itself? Holy fuck.

Probably because the subtitles have their own copyright separate from the film itself and Amazon likely doesn't have the license to the English subtitles outside of the USA. It wouldn't surprise me, music lyrics have their own separate copyright from the recording after all.

The copyright system is the biggest problem here. It simply isn't fit for purpose in the digital age, unless that purpose was to benefit a handful of legacy mega corps while harming independent content creators and stifling culture across the globe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had no idea subtitles could be copyrighted separate from the film/media they're subtitling (but, it does make sense when you think about it).

I agree with you completely: the current US copyright system is a joke that serves little purpose (in today's media scape).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish it was just the US copyright system that's the problem, some nations have worse copyright laws. In France for example architecture can have copyright, and renovations have a separate copyright from the original architecture.. The lights on the Eiffel Tower have a separate copyright from the Eiffel Tower itself, which is currently in the public domain. So while it's completely fine to take a photo of the Tower during the day at night you need to have permission from the copyright holder, and they have taken action against people who have taken photos of the Tower at night.

Then there are some nations where there isn't even a public domain and stuff never loses their copyright.

Many of these worse laws have been driven by US and EU trade policies and Trade Agreements mandating draconian copyright and intellectual property laws.

Copyright laws are just a nightmare writ large.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And rip watching a Christopher Nolan Movie without subtitles nowadays

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yep, exactly.

Fuck you - if I'm paying to watch, I should get the very basic of features. Piracy is literally a better user experience right now.

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