UK anti-piracy campaign set to begin

Starting next year, up to four warnings annually will be sent to households suspected of copyright infringement.

But if people ignore the warnings, no further action will be taken.
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Ergo it's utterly pointless and isn't really an anti-piracy campaign, but more scare tactics used in the hope that the people they contact don't actually realise that no further action will be taken.
 
Wish they'd put half as much effort into making more content legally available in a more timely and user friendly fashion (and reasonably - and by that I don't meant stupidly cheap - priced).
 
Wouldn't you say Netflix is stupidly cheap for what it offers anyway? I know that's beside the point of availability of certain stuff in a timely manner, though.
 
Netflix is very well priced for what it offers though to get anything like the availability we should have you have to use out of region versions :| and still waaay too much content we have to wait 6-24 months extra before its released here if at all. While thats the case I have very little sympathy for the big media companies even though I detest freeloaders.
 
Netflix was said to be about to hike the prices (US initially I think).

I have heard all this scaremongering before, just use common sense.
 
I don't pirate anything but tbh if anyone wants to do it, it isn't that difficult to pay for a VPN with no logs. Just for pirating nobody is going to be bothered with the financial difficulty of finding you unless you start being a massive seeder and uploading to everyone.
 
Rroff said:
Wish they'd put half as much effort into making more content legally available in a more timely and user friendly fashion (and reasonably - and by that I don't meant stupidly cheap - priced).
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I'm still waiting for widespread legal FLAC downloads. :(
 
The paid mp3 download services are taking the Mick price wise now,

Its basically a cartell, but what can you do.
 
Yeah, pointless worst of time just as they try to block sites, hello we are all using Tor now, good luck blocking that.

Netflix is nice to have and I been using it but it's still a pretty poor service, it's library is small and they remove content after a while.

If they really want people to stop downloading stuff, then they should build a service like Steam, offer every single flim, music, tv series and offer it at the same time for everyone around the world and offer them at really cheap prices from something like £1 to £10.
 
I seem to remember digital downloads were going to make things far cheaper as less overheads and no packaging or postage, think it was Apple with iTunes who made this BS promise as many times its cheaper to buy the CD/DVD.
 
ebooks make me laugh though I kind of understand why due to the licensing model used but its a little silly when for instance as an example of something I was looking at a couple of days back - the physical copy of the book was 2.99 the cheapest ebook of it 14.99.
 
jh30uk said:
I seem to remember digital downloads were going to make things far cheaper as less overheads and no packaging or postage, think it was Apple with iTunes who made this BS promise as many times its cheaper to buy the CD/DVD.
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But CDs are now much cheaper than they were back then. Pre online shopping, pre MP3 downloads, CDs were usually £12+ (2 for £20 would be a special offer!), and that's back when £10 was actually worth something.
 
Rroff said:
ebooks make me laugh though I kind of understand why due to the licensing model used but its a little silly when for instance as an example of something I was looking at a couple of days back - the physical copy of the book was 2.99 the cheapest ebook of it 14.99.
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Physical books get remaindered, ebooks don't.
 
I was talking back then and even now, a digital service was meant to be and should be cheaper.

It is a rip off, only need to look at Steam for new games vs stores selling the DVD.
 
philip2009 said:
Yes it seems too good to be true, so I predict further measures in the future to give anti-infringement measures some teeth.
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That's not the case, it's going to be utterly impractical to actually do anything about it, ergo they take pointless measures like this in the hope people get rattled and stop doing it.
 
this will be round one. after 12 months or so they will release the figures on how may millions emails they have sent and how many individuals they have targeted and then go for proper legislation.

it bad enough that we've lost direct access to EZTV and others already but this will just strengthen the case for more site bans and quicker one down the line.

there is also the case for letting parents know that little Jonny upstairs in his bedroom and all innocent he claims, is actually the schools major porn distributor and pirate music king.
 
Ploppy2k3 said:
this will be round one. after 12 months or so they will release the figures on how may millions emails they have sent and how many individuals they have targeted and then go for proper legislation.

it bad enough that we've lost direct access to EZTV and others already but this will just strengthen the case for more site bans and quicker one down the line.

there is also the case for letting parents know that little Jonny upstairs in his bedroom and all innocent he claims, is actually the schools major porn distributor and pirate music king.
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Yeah, no.
 
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