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Brilliant. Makes me want to become a customer to support their sheer chutzpah. I guess they must have done at least some legal homework. Not that it matters muc
by dtf 16y ago
Brilliant. Makes me want to become a customer to support their sheer chutzpah. I guess they must have done at least some legal homework. Not that it matters much when you're baiting the attack dogs of the content industries, whose primary fear seems not to be loss of revenue but loss of control.
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago> the content industries, whose primary fear seems not to be loss of revenue but loss of control. As a matter of fact, this company is proposing to stream movies for half of what Netflix does. I'm pretty sure that the studies get less than half the money from this than they would get from Netflix. So yes, there is definitely a significant loss of revenue (or would be, if this company ever got anywhere.)
- pmjordan 16y agoLoss of revenue per rented movie. Depends on the degree of saturation of the market whether it's true loss of revenue. The video streaming market in Europe has barely been touched; iTunes movie rentals only recently opened up to more regions, and at €3-4 per movie it's very expensive compared to DVD rental.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoIt's also more difficult, and drastically more expensive than BitTorrent.
- hugh3 16y agoYes yes, and paying for your groceries is more expensive than shoplifting too, can we please not have the discussion where people pretend that stealing stuff is just as good as buying it? Most people are law-abiding citizens.
- Quarrelsome 16y agoCan we please not use the "stealing from a shop" analogy as it is not a parallel. Cloning and taking a copy of the groceries would be closer. IP theft is not the same as literal theft. It's similar but this analogy is terrible brain food.
- IgorPartola 16y agoStop using the S word! Seriously. When you steal something, the rightful owner no longer has the item. You cannot by definition steal digital content. You can merely copy it. Does that result in damages to the original owner? Maybe. Is it stealing? No.
- throw_away 16y agohonest question: do you think identity theft should likewise be renamed?
- tomjen3 16y agoSince identity theft means that the person looses stuff (privacy, high credit score, etc) it seems like it was perfectly named.
- prodigal_erik 16y ago"Identity theft" is merely a type of fraud. The victims are the creditors, and what you "lose" (the opinion they have of you) never belonged to you.
- chesser 16y agoIdentity theft is a much broader issue than just credit reports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft Essentially it's a way to accrue benefits while pushing any negative consequences on someone else. Those negative consequences can be material and not merely opinion. (E.g., your actual bank account can be drained and your checks can bounce.) Further, opinion does translate into material consequences. Your options largely depend on the opinion that other people have of you. Even narrowly construed, a mere credit score is a source of opinion that can affect everything from housing (buying OR renting) to employment, to getting a cell phone or any other type of service. Straightening out your credit can be very difficult, and even if you are successful, the fraud was a denial of service attack against your time. Credit bureaus rarely if ever face penalties for maintaining inaccurate information, so the onus is on the person whose identity was stolen. If you don't think the individual is victimized, I invite you to post all your credentials and see where the experiment leads.
- charlesdm 16y agoI agree, there should be a streaming service in Europe -- It's a huge untapped market, and I wouldn't mind a service like that.