Chelsea.
22.
American.
Music is my ultimate concern.
ABOUT ME I also help run fuckyeahthestrokes and alberthammondjrappreciation, which should tell you something about my musical leanings.
MegaUpload - Closed.
FileServe - Closing, does not sell premium.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..
UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..
FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB - Closed! Will disappear soon.
Uploaded - Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
Videoz - Closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors. Pro FBI
Org Torrent - Could vanish with everything within 30 days “he is under criminal investigation”
Network Share mIRC - Awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything.
Koshiki - Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA
Shienko Box - 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPAFucking hell.
The thing that annoys me about this is that the TV networks don’t give me a fucking choice to watch it legally because I’m outside of the US. I would happily buy the shit out of the shows I watch on Amazon or ITunes, seriously I am dying to throw my money at you but I am not given that opportunity and half the shows I watch don’t even air in the UK.
That’s what kills me—a big portion of the people that illegally download TV shows and video download it because they have no other option to watch it because they live outside the country of broadcast. If they were investigating and closing these sites AND working on ways to get more media to more people, streamed or otherwise, then I might not be AS bitter, but just pulling the tablecloth out underneath the place settings isn’t going to leave them there as they were—people are going to go apeshit and find a workaround sooner than they can blink.
how to cut down on an enormous chunk of illegal downloading, and this is so absurdly simple that it boggles the mind:
- make your show / movie / whatever accessible online.
- put ads on it so you can make money off of it, or sell a subscription to a competitive streaming service like netflix.
- make it available
- everywhere, meaning the country of origin and everywhere else
- as soon as it airs (tv shows) / becomes legally available to purchase (films &cet). not a week and a half later, not three days later, not the next morning. as soon as. people who are savvy about internet downloading and things are generally going to be the sort of people who hang out online and want to talk about their favorite shows as soon as they happen with their friends who are in that timezone/country. you’ll cut down on a shitton of downloading if you just make things available legally faster.
- square yourselves with the idea that in this age of high definition and internet streaming that seeing a film in a cinema is a premium service and should not be relied upon as a primary method of distribution.
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Chelsea.
22.
American.
Music is my ultimate concern.
