So is that an argument for or against pirating?
First, kill all the spammers. Announce that the pirates are next. They will stop.
Time for patents and copyrights to have a minimum monthly fee and the fees be based on the abound of revenue generated. Congress has ignored the limited time clause of the constitution, ruining those who pay for copyright and patent protections the opportunity to be paid back with the content going to the public domain.
Then we’ll care about the pirates.
Anything that weakens an enemy does not have to be justified.
Liars. It doesn’t cost industry anywhere near what they claim.
Online pirates will not buy the products they are pirating at any price if they can’t find a free download. Industry is assuming they could get full price from these “potential customers.” That’s total and complete B.S.
The industry has fallen for the classic blunder of assuming their “entertainment” content is worth spit.
I think what Hollywood has forgotten is their people continually insult common sense people and patriots and expect us to follow them to the box office. I wouldn’t give, as a recent example, Harrison Ford, a penny after he trashed the POTUS and America hawking his new film (a remake of a classic that he probably changed to reflect the PC world we now live in)”Call of the Wild. When Noah came out a few years ago, my church wanted to go see it, but I told them that “rock people” built the Ark and Noah had a stowaway and met a guy on the water wanting to sell them things. What an insult to Bible believers! I’m sure there were many non Christians that pirated it to keep from giving them any money for the trash. I could give a list of names that I’m sure most people wouldn’t give them the time of day, let alone buy them a new Bugatti. Hollywood consistently gives award shows telling us how much they hate us and then expect us to go to the box office. I haven’t seen a movie in a movie house in literally decades. I have my daughters Netfix, Hulu, and Amazon passwords for my own accounts piggybacked on her. If she unsubscribes, there will be no paid for movies in my house. It’s all trash! 1 film out of 100 is worth seeing and if that’s the case, I will pay for it on a Monday Matinee with the senior discount.
Broken window fallacy
This article overstates the problem by citing numbers of “visits” to these piracy sites. Most of them are torrent download sites. Torrents download by grabbing bits of content from suppliers wherever they can be found. Some of the most effective torrent software causes downloading one title to involve “visiting” hundreds of sites many times in succession.
This would have been a bigger issue back when Hollywood made content worth stealing.
It’s fun to talk theory, but out here in reality part of the reason piracy is so rampant is it’s mostly untraceable. Best you can hope for is that folks aren’t using a VPN to obfuscate their IP and you can complain to their carrier.
The first pirated copies of movies show up with Chinese (Mandarin) subtitles embedded.