piracy? lets solve it with a letter!

Tombo · 9 May 2014 at 20:17

I find the image in the article offensive, the episodes are under an Xvid title when they are clearly encoded using x264.

DAnDan · 9 May 2014 at 20:22

mrbell1984 said:
People should just stream. It's cheap enough these days.

If the service is up to par.

We pay for Sky, and have access to the Sky Go service, but all to often I still have to resort to pirating stuff to be able to watch what I want.

Take the F1 for example, I assumed (wrongly) that the whole race would be available to stream some time after the event. All that went up was a 12 minute highlight video of the buildup, race, and post-race stuff. So I waited until the race was repeated on the Sky F1 channel. Turn on at 12, when the race was due to start, and they're already on lap 31!

So in the end I had to download it. Got a nice HD copy within minutes.

They've still got a long way to go to simply match the level of service that pirating gives! :mad:

JohnnyG · 9 May 2014 at 20:24

HybridX said:
I would pay for some of the things i watch if i could. Game of thrones for example... i would happily pay for each season from HBO but I'm not going to buy a TV license, buy a subscription pack with HBO just to watch the series.

So every Monday i stream Sundays episode.. FU HBO and your archaic media choices.

I dont download i stream from free sites as its less hassle and easier. if ever i get one of these it can join the 30 or so TV license letters i'm saving and adding to.

Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

[TW]Fox · 9 May 2014 at 20:26

Streaming isn't much use for watching things on planes and trains

blitzwing85 · 9 May 2014 at 20:26

It's the best way to verify what is worth buying and what isn't. Seems a bit pointless trying to sop it IMO

MrMoonX · 9 May 2014 at 20:28

JohnnyG said:
Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

Or in a globalised world, why should we have regional releases with half the world waiting forever

shorttricky · 9 May 2014 at 20:32

JohnnyG said:
Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

Perhaps they'd just rather watch it without getting it spoilered the first time - instead of waiting 6 months, slowly finding out everything that happened before they get a chance to watch it.

Martini1991 · 9 May 2014 at 20:34

JohnnyG said:
Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

I don't know if you missed my Person Of Interest Season 2 example, but the season ended in May 2013, it's due to launch on Optical Media on June 2014.

So, for over a year, your only method of having the content was pirating it.

It's recently on Netflix as of the last 2 months or so (Well, season 1, season 2's JUST landed on it) but still, it's streaming only.

JHeaton · 9 May 2014 at 20:34

JohnnyG said:
Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

The thing is, we live in an age where there is no real reason for it not to be available within a short amount of time. It becomes frustrating having to wait up to a year to get something on DVD/Blu-ray when they could have made it available as a download on the day, or very near to it. It's even more frustrating when it's such a popular show, like GoT, because it's so much harder to avoid all the talk (and thus, spoilers) about the thing. :/

JohnnyG · 9 May 2014 at 20:35

MrMoonX said:
Or in a globalised world, why should we have regional releases with half the world waiting forever

Because that's what is decided by the copyright owners/producers/partners/whatever & it's not going to be forever.
No-one needs to see anything right now they just want to.
You can't pass the blame on that desire to anyone else or use it as an excuse for circumventing the rules in place.

Martini1991 · 9 May 2014 at 20:36

Wish my world was as black and white as yours, sounds nice.

Mark A · 9 May 2014 at 20:43

JohnnyG said:
Seeing as you're happy to pay for it why don't you just wait until it's available on hard media or the like to do so?
It strikes me that a lot people who 'pirate' stuff would pay for what they want but just haven't got the patience to wait until it's available, it's like the modern day foot stamping and bawling.

The problem with that is that you are 99.9% guaranteed to stumble upon the season ending spoiler at some point while you wait a year or so for the box set.

JohnnyG · 9 May 2014 at 20:44

shorttricky said:
Perhaps they'd just rather watch it without getting it spoilered the first time - instead of waiting 6 months, slowly finding out everything that happened before they get a chance to watch it.

That's just another lame excuse, I watch the current series of GOT every Monday and have managed to avoid any real spoilers. That's because I want to though. It's easy to do really.

Martini1991 said:
I don't know if you missed my Person Of Interest Season 2 example, but the season ended in May 2013, it's due to launch on Optical Media on June 2014.

So, for over a year, your only method of having the content was pirating it.

It's recently on Netflix as of the last 2 months or so (Well, season 1, season 2's JUST landed on it) but still, it's streaming only.

I wait for films to come out at the cinema or on BlinkBox until, well until they're out. Why can't you?

JHeaton said:
The thing is, we live in an age where there is no real reason for it not to be available within a short amount of time. It becomes frustrating having to wait up to a year to get something on DVD/Blu-ray when they could have made it available as a download on the day, or very near to it. It's even more frustrating when it's such a popular show, like GoT, because it's so much harder to avoid all the talk (and thus, spoilers) about the thing. :/

Again tough.
If it's not available for you to have when you want it in your bedroom that's your problem, what gives you the right to get it against the copyright holder's desires?

mattyfez · 9 May 2014 at 20:45

Spoilers, plus why wait and pay when it's free?

JHeaton · 9 May 2014 at 20:52

JohnnyG said:
Again tough.
If it's not available for you to have when you want it in your bedroom that's your problem, what gives you the right to get it against the copyright holder's desires?

I don't. If it's not available within a reasonable time, at a reasonable price and in the format I want, I just don't buy it at all. The result? Absolutely no different to if I was to download it illegally. They still lose out on my custom, nothing more and nothing less.

JohnnyG · 9 May 2014 at 20:59

So it's all down to what you want, when you want it & what you want to pay for it.
If those criteria aren't met you download it illegally?

JHeaton · 9 May 2014 at 21:01

Err, no?

JHeaton said:
I don't.

First two words.

arc@css · 9 May 2014 at 21:02

V-Spec said:
that video is hilarious,

+1

Dear little baby.

^TANK^ · 9 May 2014 at 21:03

Well I'm glad I'm with Sky it means I get free toilet paper, well four pieces anyway. I only watch The Ultimate Fighter knock off Nigel style because the greedy ****s wont add the program to my £15 a month Subscription to BT sports, I refuse to pay extra for Fight Pass.

diamount · 9 May 2014 at 21:05

If I am unable to rent/buy something immediately after it being aired, then it's getting pirated. I'm not paying £20 something a month to watch one show, so either get with the times or continue to have your stuff pirated. It's disgraceful these companies haven't realised that yet.