Netgear Shows Customers How To Share Pirated Movies

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Well, it is screener season.

For those who haven’t spotted the faux pas, what we’re looking at in the above image is Netgear explaining how its users can send a pirate rip of the Michael Bay movie ‘Pain and Gain‘ across a network. Possibly making matters worse is the fact that the movie appears to have been acquired from RARBG, one of the world’s most popular torrent sites. Presuming that the file was on a Netgear computer when the tutorial was made, one doesn’t have to be particularly imaginative to work out how it got there.
 
In some countries it's perfectly legal to rip movies for your personal use.
 
Yeah, regardless of local legality, it would have been better to just rename the movie file to "Movie1" or some such, and delete the other files.

Accidents like this are why people end up having to run so much by their legal dept.
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Guys it's Christmas......seriously......who gives a rats rectum! lmao

May all your torrent rips be long :D
 
Guys it's Christmas......seriously......who gives a rats rectum! lmao

May all your torrent rips be long :D

The MPAA, this just cost them $100mil dollars! Money that otherwise would have been spent viewing Star Wars.

/sarcasm
 
In some countries it's perfectly legal to rip movies for your personal use.

How do those rules apply to downloading a copy? That's not YOU making a backup. Plus there's the inevitable share aspect too as you download a torrent.
 
Can you legally own a digital copy that's higher resolution (IE: 4K video but disc is only 1080)?

That would be one reason to download something you legally "own"... if that's how it works ???
 
How do those rules apply to downloading a copy? That's not YOU making a backup. Plus there's the inevitable share aspect too as you download a torrent.

Because they put a tax on every device that can hold audio/video files, yes even HDDs / SSDs, smartphones or tablets, basically anything with storage. And at the end of the year they distribute a part of the income between the lackeys of the copyright organization, but most of it is just pocketed by them.

That's how it works were I live. This way downloading or copying movies/music is legal for your personal usage. Uploading them to the internet is illegal but downloading is not. The whole country works like a giant subscription service, that you pay for by buying data storage devices.
 
Well now Netgear will have to put in anti-piracy technology in their routers or have their asses sued off.
 
Legality aside, assuming you're using Windows (and 90% of PCs are), wouldn't the sync toy handle accomplish this? One of these days, I need to see if my router can run Subsonic. It'd be nice if I could run my music server from an HD and the router.
 
Everyone pirates. It's one of the main selling points of a fast internet connection and a good router. Netgear is just being open and honest about it.
 
The MPAA, this just cost them $100mil dollars! Money that otherwise would have been spent viewing Star Wars.

/sarcasm

Sorry... I think you are a bit confused.... I thought you said mil, as in millions. Don't you mean Billions?
 
Everyone pirates. It's one of the main selling points of a fast internet connection and a good router. Netgear is just being open and honest about it.

  1. That's not true
  2. Even if 1 was true, it potentially opens up Netgear to lawsuits, especially if the file size matches the size of a known pirated version of that movie.
 
Because they put a tax on every device that can hold audio/video files, yes even HDDs / SSDs, smartphones or tablets, basically anything with storage. And at the end of the year they distribute a part of the income between the lackeys of the copyright organization, but most of it is just pocketed by them.

That's how it works were I live. This way downloading or copying movies/music is legal for your personal usage. Uploading them to the internet is illegal but downloading is not. The whole country works like a giant subscription service, that you pay for by buying data storage devices.

Canada did that (Not sure that's where you are?). They legislated to collect the tax. They forgot about the distribution though. Last I read, the govt. just keeps the money.
 
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