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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (www.techspot.com)
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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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[–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

What's funny is, if piracy is removed as an option, collectively we would all focus on the stranglehold movie production companies have, and break it up, to essentially produce the same effect. Utilising and focusing all that technical skills and ability to how do we cause things to change. By upping their game, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They have been since Napster. Netflix almost killed movie/tv torrenting. It was so cheap with so much content, it was more expensive to run an HTPC setup than pay like $5/month for NF streaming. Then every company wanted their own streaming service and ships reappeared.

    It's seems like every time someone figures out the supply issue, they come along, put in a few road blocks and charge you money to get though to what you had before for free or way less.

    To this day I still blame Lars. No talent drummer who's entire band was a success off the back of sharing their first EP which they SAID TO DO only to turn around and sue.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    It’s seems like every time someone figures out the supply issue, they come along, put in a few road blocks and charge you money to get though to what you had before for free or way less.

    I mean yeah, that kind of thing has been the foundation of wealth for like... thousands of years, I think.

    1. Acquire thing that lots of people want.
    2. Secure it from anyone being able to get any of it for themselves.
    3. Require people to give you money/labor/whatever in exchange for it.
    4. Set the price as high as people will tolerate.
    5. Profit. So, so, so much profit.

    The point is not, never has been, and never will be, giving people things they want cheaply, the point is profit. Giving people things cheaply is beneficial when it lets you undercut the competition from other people selling the same or similar things. So much the better if you give what you control to people really cheaply at the start, and then raise the costs once your new livestock customers get settled in. But point is, at the end of the day, this type of behavior is how the profit motive plays out.

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