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Imagine a paid streaming service that has, say, the Lord of the Rings trilogy as part of their catalogue. They’ll be happy if you send people searching for “wat
by zztop44 3y ago
Imagine a paid streaming service that has, say, the Lord of the Rings trilogy as part of their catalogue. They’ll be happy if you send people searching for “watch Lord of the Rings now” to their landing page.
But if instead you send everyone who searches for that an .mkv of Lord of the Rings that’s ripped from their site, they’ll probably be be less happy.
- mbrumlow 3y agoWha rid that .mkv was actually a high quality reenactment with different actors and millions of slight differences peppered throughout the story. And if a viewer of the original and a viewer of the .mkv talked about the movie they would agree on most things. But the color of the sunset or the home town name of the main character maybe different?
- solarpunk 3y agoWarner Brothers sued and won against Asylum for this very thing lmao. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoThe Asylum suit was about trademark, not copyright. Asylum changed the title of the film to not infringe on Warner brother’s trademark and released it anyway.
- solarpunk 3y agoyes, op asked about a video titled lotr.mkv, but with millions of tiny differences.
- noitpmeder 3y agoWell at the very least it would be an interesting court case!