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I meant because I'd have to torrent the anime for screencaps since I don't own it.
But I discovered that there's some good quality uploads on Youtube so it's all good.
Because they're tracking/monitoring your web history and preventing you from doing what people would like to do. Which may be illegal, but it's still what people want to do.
Uh, I'm pretty sure it's not. You can have torrents that are perfectly legal to download.
^^Oh. That would be a problem.
They already have logs of your web history. This doesn't really make a difference in that.
"Because people would really like to break the law" really doesn't cut it as far as arguments against this sort of thing go.
I wasn't talking about torrents as a whole, but the Pirate Bay specifically, which is dedicated to illegal ones.
Only in the condition that the torrent you are downloading comes from the creator of the work itself, I think.
It does. They already have it, but before, it just sat there passively. Now they are using it.
It might not sound like much to you, but that would be a deal breaker to me. I hate the thought of people monitoring what I'm doing like that.
Ooooor if the torrent contains non-copyrighted material.
It's not a very good argument in that it certainly won't get ISPs to get rid of it, but it's still legitimate to not like it for that reason.
But that isn't what they're doing. They'd have no idea what you're doing unless you visit sites that are specifically flagged as pirate sites. And even then, that's all they'd know.
Well, here's the thing. Anti-piracy measures are going to happen. Because...well, it's a way of breaking the law with no possible consequences at the moment, and that isn't good.
I have a feeling that I'm going to be coming back to the Daybreak OVA a lot for caps.
That would work as a notable exception if copyrighted material was normally distributed through torrents, though.
Not to mention that I don't think many people use torrents to have access to non-copyrighted material
Part of me wonders if this will really benefit the RIAA and MPAA like they think it will. On one hand people might just go out and buy the things they would have torrented. On the other hand they might not touch it at all since they didn't want stuff enough to pay for it in the first place.
Oh, it definitely won't. The thing that will is good digital distribution (see iTunes and how music piracy isn't nearly as much of a problem anymore).
The thing is, they're still actively monitoring what I'm doing.
I don't care that they're 'only' monitoring what I'd be doing on suspicious websites. That's still far, far more information than I'd be comfortable with my ISP knowing.
I think it's funny that with this, America will actually be more restrictive on their internet than Australia is. Hahaha.
I think you'd be surprised at how many fanworks get distributed through torrents. Go look up Touhou fanworks on torrent sites, for instance.
Still from what I can tell from the article, it sounds like they are actively spying on people.
Fuck my dad. He made my mom cry earlier today. And even though I asked MULTIPLE times today for the Skype username my sister is using, he got pissed at me for not contacting my sister over Skype yet. Yet I still tried around ten times to call my grandmother to ask
My dad can go fuck himself
Even though I don't like what the ISP's are doing I'm not going to panic yet. One, it's mainly focused on music and movies not games and anime. Two, there are ways around it already. Three, I have no idea if my ISP is even participating.
My country isn't even participating, so I'm not exactly concerned.
If it proves "succesful", the model will be replicated by foreign ISPs
They might not call it out specifically but I'm not really comfortable pushing my luck.
We have our own plans for this
I'm just gonna start a nation where copyright means shit
will call it genosha
it'll be boss
call it
latveria
i dunno
i don't wanna doom it from the start
I don't torrent often, but I do use steaming/reader sites a lot. So, I'm more worried about those going under fire (again).
The thing is, "watching" in the literal sense would require a completely insane budget. I mean, you'd have to hire people to, in real time, read every url someone accesses it, then go to it and check it for copyrighted content. You'd need hundreds of thousands of people, working around the clock, forever.
This would cost tens of millions of dollars per day. They're not going to do that.
^^^ so you want to-
oh hahaha
But Genosha might just X it out.
I'unno. I'd say it depends entirely on the leader. I think that such a leader should have a...magnetic personality, if you will.
That'd be pretty neato.
booooo
oh shut up koala bear person
the adults are punning.