Google Fiber Sends Automated Piracy ‘Fines’ to Subscribers

I wonder how many Google Fiber subscribers are paying for every bit of pornographic material they download. Supposedly that's actually one of the most popular types of materials when it comes to copyright infringement.

You Wouldn't Download That Porn For Free. Right? :D
 
I wonder how many Google Fiber subscribers are paying for every bit of pornographic material they download. Supposedly that's actually one of the most popular types of materials when it comes to copyright infringement.

You Wouldn't Download That Porn For Free. Right? :D

pornhub.com is free.
 
STOP STEALING SHIT
That's largely true, but a big part missing from payment demand letter scheme is even the slightest amount of due process. Google seems to be taking a hands off approach to this and it's a little disappointing.
 
IP is not a person.

But anyway, there are many services I can't get because they aren't made in the format that I want/can consume them in.

Again, the makers fault. I'd be willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for certain things, but the content "makers" refuse to put it how I want it.

Fuck em.

Soooo that warrants you stealing their shit? And also being a dumbass who makes himself easy to find whilst doing so?

Seriously, if you want to steal shit just do it. I don't need a whiny justification for it. All I'm saying is you can do it and not make it easy for them to track you down and if they do it's all on you.
 
LOL!

^-- this guy joined 12-months ago and writes: "STOP PIRATING"... um Mr. RIAA hack go away.


Seriously though if you're downloading stuff that's sketchy it should be behind a VPN using software that encrypts data end to end.
 
The argument that "I was never paying anyway" has one big flaw; a lot of times someone would have paid if stealing wasnt an option for them. Oh sure they might like to sit there and claim that they had no intention of buying those 10,000,000 MP3's they downloaded on Napster back in the day, but chances are they were buying at least a few of those albums and are simply using that argument as a crutch because they secretly feel guilty about what they did. If you went to the effort to download a movie you knew was going to be bad, you probably would have paid the $0.99 rental fee to stream it online or waited for it to release on Netflix which you are also paying for.
 
Easy

RIAA and those guys

"Hey Google, here is the deal, we will let you keep all the illegal content on Youtube IF you start sending out these notifications to users automatically"
 
Piracy isn't stealing, true.

However it is still against the law and you're an asshole for doing it. So how about some of you grow up and quit trying to justify something you damn well know is wrong. If you can't afford something, you simply don't get it. It really is that simple.
 
Better yet, if you do pirate, don't go flaunting it on a forum. You know, that whole exposure thing?
 
Soooo that warrants you stealing their shit? And also being a dumbass who makes himself easy to find whilst doing so?

Seriously, if you want to steal shit just do it. I don't need a whiny justification for it. All I'm saying is you can do it and not make it easy for them to track you down and if they do it's all on you.

I never said I steal anything. I'm just saying a lot of piracy would go away because MOST people would be willing to pay for it in a format that they want it.

For example, I pay $300 for NFL Sunday ticket. I'd be willing to pay $600 dollars for JUST NFL Sunday ticket because I don't want or need Directv the rest of the year.

I don't steal Sunday Ticket because I can't get it the way I want it, but I'd pay DOUBLE to get it the way I want it.

Quit putting words in peoples mouths. Its almost like you pirate a shit load and are trying to cover it up by trying to make it seem like other people do it.
 
The argument that "I was never paying anyway" has one big flaw; a lot of times someone would have paid if stealing wasnt an option for them.

Oh really? And what makes you so sure of that? Just because something was obtained for free via piracy does not guarantee that it would have been purchased if it were not available via piracy. The truth is, we really don't know exactly how many sales are lost due to piracy.

However, there just aren't any concrete facts that show piracy is having any significant impact on sales (just look at the revenues of the entertainment industry).

I'm not here to argue the morality of piracy. The fact is, piracy is inherent to the nature of the internet, whether anyone likes it or not. The content owners need to adapt to technology (and no, DRM is not the solution) by offering compelling products/services at prices that give value to the consumer. Great products/services will continue to sell and sell well as they have been.

That's all there is to it. No need for RIAA/MPAA to claim millions of dollars lost due to piracy (no substantial evidence to back up these claims) and suing accused infringers just so that they can pad their ever fattening wallets.
 
Piracy isn't stealing, true.

However it is still against the law and you're an asshole for doing it. So how about some of you grow up and quit trying to justify something you damn well know is wrong. If you can't afford something, you simply don't get it. It really is that simple.

I pay for a cable subscription. I'm just too lazy to DVR shit so I have it download shows I'm watching automatically.

not really wrong. don't care who says it is. not going to shame me into anything, but that's cool that you're calling everyone an asshole with your whole universal morality thing. best of luck with that
 
LOL!

^-- this guy joined 12-months ago and writes: "STOP PIRATING"... um Mr. RIAA hack go away.


Seriously though if you're downloading stuff that's sketchy it should be behind a VPN using software that encrypts data end to end.

It was a joke-take on the guy who wrote STOP STEALING, followed by a whole discussion about how "pirating isn't stealing, it's pirating", maybe if you took the time to read the thread you would've picked up on it.
 
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