Yeah. The RIAA don't know what individuals are downloading, but they do know what is stored on the News provider's huge servers.
They have to sue the providers first. And news providers are not just small companies in russia. Some are major ISPs.
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Yeah. The RIAA don't know what individuals are downloading, but they do know what is stored on the News provider's huge servers.
They have to sue the providers first. And news providers are not just small companies in russia. Some are major ISPs.
Not true at all.
Well that was obvious.
Prefer the 'other' one though. Not that I am using them that much now. Seem to have lost my will to discover new music since I started working...
It's actually quite easy to do a man-in-the-middle attack on an SSL session. And since all your data goes through your ISP's routers anyway it would be relatively simple for them to implement it if they were required to.
Not that it matters anyway unless you're uploading bucketloads of stuff, they probably wouldn't even bother taking you to court just for downloading from usenet.
That would only work when their production costs become realistic though.
If it costs 10 million to produce a film, and they take 7 million at the box office, then need to shift 120,000 blu-ray discs or 600,000 downloads just to break even.
Say a title will sell 1 million units of either format, selling the blu-ray will net them £22,000,000 whereas the download format will bring in £2,000,000.
These are just basic examples with numbers i pulled out of the air, but you can see how it works.
Would be huge resistance to such a move both from ISp's and every company that uses SSL and similar encryption.
Although I would be interested to know the actual figures and percentages generally (other than straight to DVD films) most films make the bulk of their money from the Cinema, probably only 10% of the profit wil be DVD/BR sales.
Which isn't true that they are hosted in Russia or Russian cyber-laws aren't enforced?
that they aren't hosted in Russia.
Although Russia made some large steps on piracy when the Americans threatened to veto something to do with them in the WTo iirc.
You're probably right, i'm just trying to show that there business model would rather be £20mil up than popular. (yes i know my sums suck!
)The first rule of usenet is that you don't talk usenet
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It is great value for money, never had a speed drop out. Couple it with sabnzbd for your client and you're set. Next do a search for nzb index site - or head over the network forum for more info.
In all honesty, all these bodies that oversee these industries need to come up with better solutions than constantly whining that they're losing business. It's an untapped market. a lot of people quite happily pay between £10 - £15 a month for a decent Usenet service. Why don't the MPAA, RIAA etc offer their own service for this? £15 a month for a finite number of movie downloads, rentals, or something similar? I bet that most people that are currently using Usenet to source this content would happily pay that money to the MPAA or RIAA to have this kind of access instead.
It really is a shame that these companies don't modernise their business model. They'd sooner shout that the Internet is killing their industry than to actually try and harness the sheer power that it actually offers them. I'm getting rather sick and tired of reading the same sob story from these bodies. They need to get with the times. They could make so much money from the Internet if they actually gave it a proper go.
Also, people use Usenet to download the latest episode of TV shows from America. Well, they wouldn't have to do this if the American Live TV laws weren't so warped and they wanted stupid amounts of money for their shows to be broadcast almost simultaneously here in the UK and the rest of the world. It is their greed that is killing these industries, not the pirates. If I used newsgroups to download TV shows, I probably wouldn't download them if the TV show was shown on a Sky channel the same day or within a day or two of it being shown on US TV. I would just watch it on my own TV using the Sky subscription that I already pay £70 for. I think the only shows that are like that at the moment are 24, and NCIS: Los Angeles, which are aired in the UK a day after the release in the US. If a TV show can be capped, ripped and uploaded to a newsgroup hours after it has been released on TV in the US, why can't the TV companies use their monumental internet bandwidth to retrieve these shows as they air and show them here? As I said above, they all need to get with the times and forget their greed. I can bet that they would make an absolute killing if they just adjusted their business model to suit the times.
It really is a shame that these companies don't modernise their business model. They'd sooner shout that the Internet is killing their industry than to actually try and harness the sheer power that it actually offers them. I'm getting rather sick and tired of reading the same sob story from these bodies. They need to get with the times. They could make so much money from the Internet if they actually gave it a proper go.
Also, people use Usenet to download the latest episode of TV shows from America. Well, they wouldn't have to do this if the American Live TV laws weren't so warped and they wanted stupid amounts of money for their shows to be broadcast almost simultaneously here in the UK and the rest of the world. It is their greed that is killing these industries, not the pirates. If I used newsgroups to download TV shows, I probably wouldn't download them if the TV show was shown on a Sky channel the same day or within a day or two of it being shown on US TV. I would just watch it on my own TV using the Sky subscription that I already pay £70 for. I think the only shows that are like that at the moment are 24, and NCIS: Los Angeles, which are aired in the UK a day after the release in the US. If a TV show can be capped, ripped and uploaded to a newsgroup hours after it has been released on TV in the US, why can't the TV companies use their monumental internet bandwidth to retrieve these shows as they air and show them here? As I said above, they all need to get with the times and forget their greed. I can bet that they would make an absolute killing if they just adjusted their business model to suit the times.