I would agree that or some ancient history residential schools stuff if this person appeared left/far left leaning. They are talking about the budget like the deficit matters though, so I suspect they are more right leaning and so are referring to what I proposed in my other response.
Yes, this is a common error made by many. You are looking at the residential school not so great days and grouping it in with the actually terrible pre WW2 days. They aren't the same, especially when talking about genocide vs abuse. Even if they were the same 50+ years ago is a very long time ago.
I also worry that you are making the follow up error made by many and trying to use things that happened 50+ years ago now to justify current bad outcomes, when the current bad outcomes stem largely from the utter institutional failure that is indigenous services and the corrupt fiefdoms that are the reserves.
Usually when people make that claim about Canada (and don't appear to be left/far left) they are referring to either our medical assistance in dying laws (which went from only for people on the brink of dying from stuff like cancer to now contemplating extension to mature minors, people with mental illness only among others) or they are referring to our abortion laws.
They could be but the could also be really bad things. I am personally uneasy about how far we are and continue to extend medical assistance in dying (it's one thing to help someone a few months away from death from cancer to speed things up and avoid a ton of suffering and expense, it's something entirely different to allow the government to off people that would have otherwise likely lived for decades, are minors, are retarded, etc). That is too new for me to have strong objections though, I will wait another decade and see where the regulations/practices settle down to before I draw a strong conclusion.
The abortion thing is also potentially problematic because it hasn't really been settled. The old law was just thrown out without replacement legislation, which legalized everything from early abortion (which most people are fine with) all the way up to very late stage abortion (which a large minority of people are very much not ok with). This leaves a wedge for people that feel strongly against the policy to convince more people to also be against by referencing the extreme minority of very late stage abortions as a cludge to remove support for the vast majority of abortions that are a lot earlier. I'm a big fan of abortion (mothers seem to know when they are going to raise criminals and abortion removed so many future criminals that it actually changed the crime stats) so I would prefer for us to go through the uncomfortable situation the USA is currently going through and settle this with a compromise that removes a lot of that wedge pressure, while maintaining abortion laws that would allow the vast majority of currently performed abortions with no additional bureaucratic BS.
My educated guess based on "as well as freezing bank accounts just for attending a peaceful protest" in the same breath is vaccine mandates.
Poster is a nutjob. The "peaceful protest" was a Russian dark money backed attempt to disrupt Canadian life, to sow discord and chaos. I mean, they were successful with Brexit and Trump so they took a stab at Canada but they didn't manage to tear Canada apart. On the surface, they were protesting vaccine mandates but that was just the drivel for the redneck fodder. Canadian authorities haven't seen the like yet so they let it grow up to a point where they actually managed to disrupt Canadian economy seriously by occupying a bridge leading to a border crossing. So the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency, froze their bank accounts and sent them home. No one died. These nutjobs forget this rather important point: Canadian authorities peacefully managed to end this.
I don't know if poster GP is a nutjob but I've noticed more and more of those type of low-quality comments on here. It all sounds like echoes of a distorted news headlines repeated over and over until we get to the point of: "They don't even have the right to life, their country is committing a genocide, and the goverment tries to take most of their money".
The end of your comment has some facts wrong, if you care
- the emergency was declared after the bridges were back open
- the private banks froze the accounts
“Russian dark money backed attempt to disrupt life” LOL. I watched the live streams. I know people who went to Ottawa. Real people were Real pissed off with government mandates and a peaceful protest that should not have ended in a proper democracy was disrupted. And you cheer for the result
I mean, that's going to eat up quota limits, and the VPN provider, most of them will still hand over information if requested - assuming they don't just firewall off torrents.
Generally paying for a seedbox is the accepted way to pirate while hiding IP.
Couldn’t be further from the truth. VPNs are the main way people are hiding their IPs. Providers like PIA have no caps and are just shy of fully endorsing it.
Nah. Most people might use VPNs to hide their IPs, but most people are not using torrents also. There's honestly little need to hide an IP just for torrenting anyway, at least in the US, Canada and most western countries. You just get a letter from the ISP you can ignore.
If you use torrents a lot, you use a seedbox, not a vpn.
I think you’re in a different bubble. If no one used vpn for torrents why is one of the top docker images for transmission one to support vpns? No ones spending money on a seed box that’s just casually torrenting.
I'm not saying no one uses VPN for torrents, just that it is not a main use case.
People casually torrenting are not worried about hiding their IP.
Also, not sure that is a top docker image but either way plenty of people with the skill to use docker are probably running their own vpn for their home network. I don't think it means much.
It must be because streaming prices in Brazil are low, and people generally lack the technical knowledge to use torrents. Many don't even have a computer anymore and do everything on their mobile phone or smart TV.
Its only because of cheap streaming and password sharing. People in Brazil would be able to pirate using a toaster if prices were too high. Only one person has to get the file, then it gets distributed easily.
Last shows i (I'm Brazilian) remember pirating: Mr Robot, cause i didn't even know where to watch it legally and Cobra Kay, which for some reason was on YouTube originals. The latter I've download and disturbed to my friends back in college on a pen drive, i did the show a favor.
A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.
>A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.
I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more.
It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years.
Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.
gotta disagree on invincible, i thought season 2 especially has been pretty middling. a show that ironically you kinda have to pirate due to season 1 only being available on amc+ and season 2 being available through prime, but only in australia and new zealand is Pantheon. feels like something the HN crowd would eat up too.
Yeah, second season of Invincible was mediocre, but I think that' because the first one was so good, it's difficult to top that, the curse of most sequels.
It might be a common thought, but it's a goofy thought. There is plenty of content that is modern and has a focus on content, and 'less political restriction' isn't an issue unless you have shitty views.
I would say I really miss filler episodes that were the norm for genuine TV shows, every damn series is a fucking miniseries these days with zero fat and it just doesn't let the writers do any kind of proper worldbuilding anymore because there's no time for it.
Great point. Declining attention spans (or the perception of it / catering to these audiences) has borked the pacing.
Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience.
This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.
I remember a lot of adults in the mid 90's primarily watching reruns from 70's and 80's. The main factor is nostalgia, not some inherent flaw in modern shows.
There is a change, similar to how streaming has changed pop music. Current tv/film is much less suspenseful, much more boring and less funny, due to a perception that audiances are fickle, that they are not comitted and will too easily switch to another stream. And producers are working too hard not to offend paticularly sensitive audiences, those ready to start twitter wars over the slightest issue. It all adds up to dull entertainment.
Suspense does necessarily mean cliffhangers. The time between a joke start and punchline is getting shorter. Look at Friends or early BigBangTheory, not the highest calibre of entertainment but they had many jokes that were setup over seasons. That isnt a thing anymore. Everything must be packaged up in a single scene. Modern shows are just dull, taking forever for anything to happen due to all the re-explaining (Mandalorian). That isnt suspenseful, just slow.
These differences are in your head. If they are not, they are the result of TV evolving as it always does, but it hasn't been a negative evolution by any stretch of the imagination.
To agree with the sentiment "there are no good TV shows anymore" is pure nonsense.
Swift is actually fighting the trend. For instance, many of her tracks start with a second or two of silence, something considered very bad form these days. When you are at the top you are above many rules.
I thought more access and more options to video content would make TV and film better. Absolutely not. They replaced the CURATED video rental store with nothing, and now content that never earned a minute of air time is placed center stage and it's awful. It's not even indie film bad. It's just very bad like the committee who made it spent a few hours discussing and here you go. The title and thumbnail are the entire movie.
I'm not one to long for years past, but quality has been taken over by quantity many leagues over.
You clearly don't know where to look. There is more content being made than ever before. And plenty of it is fantastic, on par or better than what came before.
The answer here is not that modern content is worse, simply that you need to expand your horizons and maybe stop judging stuff and dismissing it.
I honestly don't remember the last time i was excited to go to the movies. Least time i went was to see Saint seya, which i love as a kid and although it was a bad movie it gave me a little bit of nostalgia.
Few years back i was an avid user of YIFI (yts), to the point that i even made a front end to it. I don't think i liked the piracy aspect of it, the thing for me was the catalog. Lots and lots of indie titles.
I think a combination of bad titles, spread across multiple streaming services made me quit the whole thing.
I now watch YouTube and play some Xbox on my spare time.
If you can torrent there is no point to YIFI - the catalog of available torrents has everything they have and more.
That aside though, there are still plenty of good titles. More than ever. People just have no clue where to look or want more of the stuff they liked 20 years ago I guess.
There is also more obviously pumped out garbage labeled Netflix originals and it is sad. It's like they took over the video rental store, kicked out half of the good stuff and filled it with Blockbuster Exclusives made by the staff. Staff Favourites because they're in it. I resent streaming because of this. Replaced video rental stores with nothing.
The one is a market netflix & friends are trying to expand into, the other is a market they already have exhausted for growth and are squeezing for max profit.
Of course canada loves piracy. Canada is part of US and UK media culture but is often blocked by licensing restrictions. Every time a canadian is refused the ability to stream a US tv show, a pirate is born. Every time a canadian clicks on a link and is hit with "not availible in your country", a pirate is born. Tell me I cannot watch the Dr Who christmas eve special until after christmas? Ill defend that torrent in court with my last breath.
(Fyi, the first season of the Doctor Who reboot was cosponsored by CBC, making it canadian. Look at the credits of most every movie these days and you'll find it recieved canadian tax benefits, yet Canada is often blocked or delayed at release. And half of US actors are secret Canadians.)
> Ill defend that torrent in court to my last breath.
Well, not that you would win on those grounds, but you wouldn't have to you wouldn't ever be charged in Canada anyway unless you left it seeding for mad long.
Give me one scifi fan on the bench or jury and ill pay nothing. After 30ish years of media sharing culture, most of those in power are sympathetic to the issue, which is why Canada turns a blind eye.
I almost mentioned that in my comment to preempt you mentioning that, seems I should have. Jury nullification would not apply in your case, and the jury may not even have that option.
If you honestly think you could take some illegally with the defense "I wanted it" and walk you are delusional.
I don't think there's a coherent point here. Jury nullification can occur in most common law jurisdictions (i.e.: legal systems that descend from the British legal system). There's no specific limit (say civil versus criminal) on when it can occur. And it absolutely could apply in a copyright case - that happened to come before a jury. It specifically does not depend on the validity of a legal defence, but despite it.
On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
There is certainly a coherent point here and it's been conveyed pretty clearly - you just disagree. So say that instead of pretending you don't understand what the point being made is.
> Jury nullification can occur in most common law jurisdictions (i.e.: legal systems that descend from the British legal system). There's no specific limit (say civil versus criminal) on when it can occur
You need to do some more reading. As much as people like to post jury nullification as though it's some sort of 'aha', it's kind of amazing they miss all the stories and articles about how jury nullification is removed as a practical option for a jury to exercise.
> And it absolutely could apply in a copyright case - that happened to come before a jury. It specifically does not depend on the validity of a legal defence, but despite it.
A judge will order what facts a jury can consider and deliberate on.
The parents argument "I took it because I wanted it" wouldn't even be allowed as a defense most likely, and certainly the jury would not be allowed to consider it.
> On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
What are you talking about when you say "civil disobedience"
The judge is key. They are always in a position to drift a case one way or another. There are two thing you never speak bad about in front of a judge: cats, and star trek. Either one will put you in the bad books of half the bench.
Buddy, again, you're delusional if you think your argument would work.
Clearly you have no legal education, at all. Someone told you about jury nullification or you read an article and now you think it has all sort of powers it actually doesn't.
The judge doesn't matter. Jury nullification doesn't matter.
"I took it because I wanted it" is a shitty argument, end of story.
Maybe, but jury selection weeds out people with any hard opinion to begin with. If you say "Yes I have received illegal content and I don't give af" then prosecution will likely nix you.
Try to strike scifi fans for being scifi fans and The Church of Jedi will alledge discrimination. Go after trekkers for being trekkers and half of Comicon will be on your front lawn.
There is a mounting problem in Canada with CBC and public funds funding productions we can never see or are delayed/pay walled.
Movies that are 100% paid by public money are not available to see anywhere, after a short theater release. Even if you are willing to pay for it.
I fear the result is that the public funding will dry up completely, shutting down an entire industry. That would be a big cultural loss, just because they manage the funds so badly. Fund projects people actually want to watch. Fund more diverse works. And make the damned product available to the population that paid for it.
Frankly this doesn't have much to do with not being able to watch a specific show.
I think this is due to people deeming media companies, same with how grocery companies are shifting, as companies you are free to steal from because they steal from us. Nobody cares if you steal from Disney or Warner Bros because they are giant trillion dollar companies. Same with how Loblaws, Sobeys are shifting. Stealing from them becomes something that is not frowned upon by your local populace and in some cases encouraged.
I suspect as we advance further alone this timeline it will only get worse.
People just have ZERO empathy for trillion dollar companies. The only recourse is a extremely small chance you get caught. And even then if the police also don't care, nobody will enforce it.
It's just rather hard to be on the side of MPAA against single mom of 2 torrenting The Grinch for her kids to watch.
And everytime you boot up Disney Plus and see the new Marvel movie "pre-release" for $30 that opinion just grows and grows.
>.. without media piracy lawsuits against their customers.
Huh? How can you pirate from Apple when they're not the IP owners? I don't remember Apple being the owner of the IP on iTunes, but the music studios were: Sony, BMG, Universal, etc. Apple was a middle-man.
I don’t know, I can copy Beethoven symphonies at will.
What’s incredible is that the government have taken upon themselves the mission of preventing computer users from copying bytes, at the expense of the taxpayer. It’s a mission impossible, for the financials of big corporations.
And some people even say “But there is no other solution!”
Canada spent years digitizing classic Canadian TV and published the shows on a Youtube channel, then suddenly deleted all the content in 2022 without notice to archivers, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716982
Interesting that also Spain, Argentina and Chile are on the low and declining sector, but not Mexico.
My suspicion is that it has something to do with the strategy of streaming sites: language and cheap. Streaming sites (mostly Netflix) have been releasing a lot of shows in Spanish/Portuguese, including some of good quality and have been keeping their prices low in those countries.
And these shows haven't been available in pirate sites, most people in the region don't have the know-how to pirate them and put it there.
Cheap is a big part of this. Canada is on the not-cheap side, one of the few countries where streaming a show to your phone legitimately is more expensive than in the US. And canada has language barriers, specifially that streaming services must offer a french option, that sometimes results in content being blocked.
I wonder if immigration is also a reason. I have children with who speak Italian abd it's often not possible to access the movies dubbed in Italian, even on Disney+, even though I know for a fact that they exist. Obviously nobody is going to license the italian dub for Canada, so there is no way for me to purchase the Italian version.
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I also worry that you are making the follow up error made by many and trying to use things that happened 50+ years ago now to justify current bad outcomes, when the current bad outcomes stem largely from the utter institutional failure that is indigenous services and the corrupt fiefdoms that are the reserves.
The abortion thing is also potentially problematic because it hasn't really been settled. The old law was just thrown out without replacement legislation, which legalized everything from early abortion (which most people are fine with) all the way up to very late stage abortion (which a large minority of people are very much not ok with). This leaves a wedge for people that feel strongly against the policy to convince more people to also be against by referencing the extreme minority of very late stage abortions as a cludge to remove support for the vast majority of abortions that are a lot earlier. I'm a big fan of abortion (mothers seem to know when they are going to raise criminals and abortion removed so many future criminals that it actually changed the crime stats) so I would prefer for us to go through the uncomfortable situation the USA is currently going through and settle this with a compromise that removes a lot of that wedge pressure, while maintaining abortion laws that would allow the vast majority of currently performed abortions with no additional bureaucratic BS.
My educated guess based on "as well as freezing bank accounts just for attending a peaceful protest" in the same breath is vaccine mandates.
Poster is a nutjob. The "peaceful protest" was a Russian dark money backed attempt to disrupt Canadian life, to sow discord and chaos. I mean, they were successful with Brexit and Trump so they took a stab at Canada but they didn't manage to tear Canada apart. On the surface, they were protesting vaccine mandates but that was just the drivel for the redneck fodder. Canadian authorities haven't seen the like yet so they let it grow up to a point where they actually managed to disrupt Canadian economy seriously by occupying a bridge leading to a border crossing. So the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency, froze their bank accounts and sent them home. No one died. These nutjobs forget this rather important point: Canadian authorities peacefully managed to end this.
- the emergency was declared after the bridges were back open - the private banks froze the accounts
“Russian dark money backed attempt to disrupt life” LOL. I watched the live streams. I know people who went to Ottawa. Real people were Real pissed off with government mandates and a peaceful protest that should not have ended in a proper democracy was disrupted. And you cheer for the result
Generally paying for a seedbox is the accepted way to pirate while hiding IP.
If you use torrents a lot, you use a seedbox, not a vpn.
https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
People casually torrenting are not worried about hiding their IP.
Also, not sure that is a top docker image but either way plenty of people with the skill to use docker are probably running their own vpn for their home network. I don't think it means much.
Remember, if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-jame...
A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.
I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more.
It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years.
Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.
Well that's patently ridiculous. Maybe you've just matured and have better ways to spend your time?
I can only guess why:
- More focus on content instead of message
- Less political restriction on content compared to today
And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
I don't enjoy today's politics, either. But art and entertainment was never really politics-free.
Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience.
This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.
To agree with the sentiment "there are no good TV shows anymore" is pure nonsense.
There is just significantly more content, and so people draw incomplete conclusions and make assumptions. Nothing new.
I'm not one to long for years past, but quality has been taken over by quantity many leagues over.
The answer here is not that modern content is worse, simply that you need to expand your horizons and maybe stop judging stuff and dismissing it.
Few years back i was an avid user of YIFI (yts), to the point that i even made a front end to it. I don't think i liked the piracy aspect of it, the thing for me was the catalog. Lots and lots of indie titles.
I think a combination of bad titles, spread across multiple streaming services made me quit the whole thing.
I now watch YouTube and play some Xbox on my spare time.
That aside though, there are still plenty of good titles. More than ever. People just have no clue where to look or want more of the stuff they liked 20 years ago I guess.
There is more, better content out there now than any point in history.
Guess which consumers enjoy more.
(Fyi, the first season of the Doctor Who reboot was cosponsored by CBC, making it canadian. Look at the credits of most every movie these days and you'll find it recieved canadian tax benefits, yet Canada is often blocked or delayed at release. And half of US actors are secret Canadians.)
Well, not that you would win on those grounds, but you wouldn't have to you wouldn't ever be charged in Canada anyway unless you left it seeding for mad long.
Your argument is "I take what I want because I want it and I have no other way" isn't at all convincing.
Canada doesn't turn a blind eye, they explicitly decriminalized it especially for people that are not distributing.
Your argument would be bunk regardless though.
I almost mentioned that in my comment to preempt you mentioning that, seems I should have. Jury nullification would not apply in your case, and the jury may not even have that option.
If you honestly think you could take some illegally with the defense "I wanted it" and walk you are delusional.
On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
> Jury nullification can occur in most common law jurisdictions (i.e.: legal systems that descend from the British legal system). There's no specific limit (say civil versus criminal) on when it can occur
You need to do some more reading. As much as people like to post jury nullification as though it's some sort of 'aha', it's kind of amazing they miss all the stories and articles about how jury nullification is removed as a practical option for a jury to exercise.
> And it absolutely could apply in a copyright case - that happened to come before a jury. It specifically does not depend on the validity of a legal defence, but despite it.
A judge will order what facts a jury can consider and deliberate on.
The parents argument "I took it because I wanted it" wouldn't even be allowed as a defense most likely, and certainly the jury would not be allowed to consider it.
> On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.
What are you talking about when you say "civil disobedience"
Clearly you have no legal education, at all. Someone told you about jury nullification or you read an article and now you think it has all sort of powers it actually doesn't.
The judge doesn't matter. Jury nullification doesn't matter.
"I took it because I wanted it" is a shitty argument, end of story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jediism
Movies that are 100% paid by public money are not available to see anywhere, after a short theater release. Even if you are willing to pay for it.
I fear the result is that the public funding will dry up completely, shutting down an entire industry. That would be a big cultural loss, just because they manage the funds so badly. Fund projects people actually want to watch. Fund more diverse works. And make the damned product available to the population that paid for it.
Kind of like how US streaming companies are purging content for 'tax breaks' but then you don't find a copy of the content anywhere.
I think this is due to people deeming media companies, same with how grocery companies are shifting, as companies you are free to steal from because they steal from us. Nobody cares if you steal from Disney or Warner Bros because they are giant trillion dollar companies. Same with how Loblaws, Sobeys are shifting. Stealing from them becomes something that is not frowned upon by your local populace and in some cases encouraged.
I suspect as we advance further alone this timeline it will only get worse.
People just have ZERO empathy for trillion dollar companies. The only recourse is a extremely small chance you get caught. And even then if the police also don't care, nobody will enforce it.
It's just rather hard to be on the side of MPAA against single mom of 2 torrenting The Grinch for her kids to watch.
And everytime you boot up Disney Plus and see the new Marvel movie "pre-release" for $30 that opinion just grows and grows.
Unless that trillion dolar company makes shiny phones and laptops with a fruit on them ;)
.. after mass adoption of $1 song purchases with trivial sync to iPod
.. followed in 2009 by removal of DRM from iTunes music purchases
.. without media piracy lawsuits against their customers.
Huh? How can you pirate from Apple when they're not the IP owners? I don't remember Apple being the owner of the IP on iTunes, but the music studios were: Sony, BMG, Universal, etc. Apple was a middle-man.
Who negotiated with IP owners for unprecedented music availability, then removal of DRM.
With Apple TV, they are IP owners for some content.
Well... if you think cooking recipes, clothing, architectural styles or business practices, yes.
But if you think Beethoven symphonies, "Citizen Kane" or James Watt's steam engine then no.
My point is that big, rare, difficult, hard, risky or expensive innovations need a different incentive than the simple and mundane ones.
I'll agree that the system is largely abused by rent-seekers but most of modern technology and culture was fostered by intellectual propriety.
Still yes. Had the internet existed back then of course people would be freely sharing and discussing those things.
> My point is that big, rare, difficult, hard, risky or expensive innovations need a different incentive than the simple and mundane ones.
Sure. That's irrelevant though. 20+ years of piracy data shows it doesn't hurt sales. Don't drink the koolaid.
What’s incredible is that the government have taken upon themselves the mission of preventing computer users from copying bytes, at the expense of the taxpayer. It’s a mission impossible, for the financials of big corporations.
And some people even say “But there is no other solution!”
My suspicion is that it has something to do with the strategy of streaming sites: language and cheap. Streaming sites (mostly Netflix) have been releasing a lot of shows in Spanish/Portuguese, including some of good quality and have been keeping their prices low in those countries.
And these shows haven't been available in pirate sites, most people in the region don't have the know-how to pirate them and put it there.
It's not piracy, we already paid!
The Canadian government does not. You likely haven't paid the tax in the last decade, if ever.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
While it changes my understanding of the legal facts, my feelings about piracy remain the same. Funny, that.