Stichting Brein wants to start warning frequent torrent users – IT Pro – News

https://www.film.nl/

It is there, but … it is not always correct, I have sometimes looked up films and series, where the site indicates “Oh that can be streamed there or bought there”, then you purchase that streaming service, it is not there. Or go to bol.com or whatever, it is not available anymore.

I don’t trust the site itself.

Downloading music has indeed been reduced to almost zero, I am one of the few who quietly supplement my download collection that I started around 2000 now and then. (I still buy CDs now and then, even though I have nothing to play them with or merchandise, tried Spotify a few times, but what is that advantage in ease of use compared to my own collection + winamp).

The range of downloads of films and series was really good a few years ago. On TPB there were hardly any Dutch seeds that were nice and fast, on Popcorntime it was 99% seedless with the exception of the most popular stuff. In the meantime, more and more people are starting to download again, seeds are no longer a problem, almost 90% is perfectly viewable on popcorn time.

The industry is really screwing up on their profit maximization. Because imagine if the profit is still billions next year, but a million less than this year … oooh. The industry is screwing up society for their own gain, why shouldn’t consumers do the same for their own gain.

Beyond that, TPB has an incredibly important role in our contemporary society, it is also a kind of library of Babylon in our digital world. Because in theory EVERYTHING can be found, stuff that has not been legitimately available for years (because company overthrow, forgotten work or whatever), that you can get cracked on TPB and other torrent sites with 2 fingers in the nose, and well, can find back.

Why should information made by humans not be available to humans. The power of the European Enlightenment, and the tremendous scientific advancements over the past few hundred years, has been the sharing of information. Part of the purpose of copyright and patents is that that information eventually becomes available to everyone and the work is not lost. But how Disney, among others, manage to postpone copyright for their own gain, is pure money-making.

The big media farmers are taking advantage of one of the biggest weaknesses of the capital system and if the government doesn’t stop it (in fact, they help the industry, the ($ & * $ # ($ home copy tax goes up, while your (& $ * # * $ @ # is not allowed to make legitimate copies in any way, because you cannot bypass security to do that, let every CD, DVD and bluray now be protected!), then unfortunately we have to take matters into our own hands take.

I have Netflix, I have Disney +, I try Spotify every year, but I keep downloading. BREIN is choking on it.

[Reactie gewijzigd door batjes op 2 december 2020 18:17]

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