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They are coming for them too. Don't think that they have forgotten about them.
by megablast 7y ago
They are coming for them too. Don't think that they have forgotten about them.
- philth_ 7y agoThey've been coming for torrentors for 15+ years. How's that fight going?
- loeg 7y agoAnd somehow against all odds, the scene still seems to be hanging on despite tons of FBI arrests in the 2000's and zero profit motive.
- BubRoss 7y agoHBO has been monitoring torrents for a long time and sending letters to ISPs. VPNs and seed boxes get around this.
- walrus01 7y agoNot everybody is in DMCA jurisdiction. Maximum liability in Canada is something like $5000, which makes it uneconomical for a copyright owner to actually send a lawyer to court to litigate against a person who wants to defend themselves.
- BubRoss 7y agoI'm not sure what you are saying, no one implied everyone was in the reach of HBO. The parent was saying HBO was going to go after torrenters in the future, but they have been doing it for years.
- walrus01 7y agoI guess what I'm saying is that inevitably in these sorts of discussions, about legal repercussions, the assumption is that the torrenters are physically located in the US 50 states.
- BubRoss 7y agoNo one assumed that here, the parent said HBO would go after torrenters in the future and they have been for a long time already.
- paulmd 7y agoIn fact, HBO is perhaps the most aggressive monitoring/enforcement of all content-creators. They are very, very proactive.
- shmerl 7y agoThey could for years do something about it. I.e. start offering DRM-free video for sale. They never cared, so the conclusion is that they don't want to do anything proper about it, they will only spread the DRM paranoia.
- thephyber 7y agoTo be fair, iTunes and Amazon do/did offer DRM-free for some music selections. I think blaming the distributors is misplacing the blame. The problem is that the distributors don't have the legal right to do that without contractual buy-in from content owners who fear that their golden goose will dry up if content is offered without DRM or if digital content can be kept and used in perpetuity by consumers.
- LeoNatan25 7y agoIndeed, greedy and out of touch Hollywood execs are to blame. But as a consumer, we shouldn't really care.
- scarface74 7y agoAmazon has never sold DRM'd digital music and Apple has sold all of its music DRM free for over a decade.
- thephyber 7y agoThanks for the correction. Even as I was typing it, I doubted my own memory.
- shmerl 7y agoMusic yes, and you can still buy it DRM-free today. I'm talking about video specifically.