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Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More

35 points by elsewhen 4y ago

iforgotpassword 4y ago
Tangentially related: the German news portal kino.de which is run by a "real" publisher and has news all around cinema, movies, streaming, has this article[1] about illegal streaming services where they try to suggest legal alternatives that cost little money and sometimes even have an ad-supported limited free tier. The bizarre thing is that they go through great lengths in their first paragraph to list over a dozen of those illegal streaming sites as examples. It's like, every time your favorite illegal streaming site is down, just go to kino.de to get a list of available alternatives. What the? [1] https://www.kino.de/film/joker-2019/news/kinox.to-online-movie-streams-filme-und-serien-online-schauen-kostenlos-legal-oder-illegal/ https://www.kino.de/film/joker-2019/news/kinox.to-online-mov...
- quintussss 4y ago
  This is hilarious. The author even explains the law concerning such streams: A private citizen can at most pay a 150€ fine as well as 10 to 15€ for the film itself. Considering how unlikely you are to be found out this is as close to advertising illegal streams as you can get.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  Once in a while Maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright laws By downloading mp3s From filesharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or Kazaa... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY
  - Akronymus 4y ago
    Our music is for free you can download .mp3 keep it playing on repeat if you hate it - press delete Click it, save it, seed it, share it, link it, stream it, we don’t pay Click it, save it, seed it, share it, link it, stream it, Pirate Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqxarVWKRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqxarVWKRs There is always the option of stating it explicitly.
- bananasbandanas 4y ago
  Maybe they list them to get Google hits when people search for them?
jakzurr 4y ago
Ah, yes. It's been a few days since I thought about how much I hate RIAA.
q-big 4y ago
> Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More This is actually quite logical: if people pirated much less, these "anti-piracy" organizations would lose quite some funding from the movie and recording industries. So it is in their interest that the "piracy" problems never disappears or becomes even worse. Incentives matter.
TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
"You wouldn't download a car" Trust me, I would if I could.
jraph 4y ago
Could it be that these anti-piracy ads actually put into people's head that "pirating" is a possibility, constantly remind them so, and can be as mainstream as to put it at the beginning of every single DVD?
- wodenokoto 4y ago
  The forced "you wouldn't steal a car" ad that ran on almost all DVDs basically said to people: "If you had pirated this movie, instead of buying the DVD, you didn't have to waste time with this anti piracy ad"
  - jraph 4y ago
    Ah ah. Thanks VLC by the way, for skipping this bs directly to the DVD menu.

35 points by elsewhen 4y ago

Tangentially related: the German news portal kino.de which is run by a "real" publisher and has news all around cinema, movies, streaming, has this article[1] about illegal streaming services where they try to suggest legal alternatives that cost little money and sometimes even have an ad-supported limited free tier. The bizarre thing is that they go through great lengths in their first paragraph to list over a dozen of those illegal streaming sites as examples. It's like, every time your favorite illegal streaming site is down, just go to kino.de to get a list of available alternatives. What the? [1] https://www.kino.de/film/joker-2019/news/kinox.to-online-movie-streams-filme-und-serien-online-schauen-kostenlos-legal-oder-illegal/ https://www.kino.de/film/joker-2019/news/kinox.to-online-mov...

quintussss 4y ago
This is hilarious. The author even explains the law concerning such streams: A private citizen can at most pay a 150€ fine as well as 10 to 15€ for the film itself. Considering how unlikely you are to be found out this is as close to advertising illegal streams as you can get.
thaumasiotes 4y ago
Once in a while Maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright laws By downloading mp3s From filesharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or Kazaa... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY
- Akronymus 4y ago
  Our music is for free you can download .mp3 keep it playing on repeat if you hate it - press delete Click it, save it, seed it, share it, link it, stream it, we don’t pay Click it, save it, seed it, share it, link it, stream it, Pirate Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqxarVWKRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqxarVWKRs There is always the option of stating it explicitly.
bananasbandanas 4y ago
Maybe they list them to get Google hits when people search for them?

jakzurr 4y ago

Ah, yes. It's been a few days since I thought about how much I hate RIAA.

q-big 4y ago

> Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More This is actually quite logical: if people pirated much less, these "anti-piracy" organizations would lose quite some funding from the movie and recording industries. So it is in their interest that the "piracy" problems never disappears or becomes even worse. Incentives matter.

TheLoafOfBread 4y ago

"You wouldn't download a car" Trust me, I would if I could.

jraph 4y ago

Could it be that these anti-piracy ads actually put into people's head that "pirating" is a possibility, constantly remind them so, and can be as mainstream as to put it at the beginning of every single DVD?

wodenokoto 4y ago
The forced "you wouldn't steal a car" ad that ran on almost all DVDs basically said to people: "If you had pirated this movie, instead of buying the DVD, you didn't have to waste time with this anti piracy ad"
- jraph 4y ago
  Ah ah. Thanks VLC by the way, for skipping this bs directly to the DVD menu.