Grooby Legal Action against Piracy ...

[sunairco]

How is the ACS debacle playing out on the other side of the pond? With the 4chan/Anonymous crowd distributing their internal files and copyright offender's personal information, what if any responsibility will the copyholder-clients of this company have for this privacy breach?

[SXFX]

Here is a dumb solution.....put your content in HD so that 1 video is 1 gig.
Provide a higher product to your customers which makes transferring these files harder to do.

[GrimFusion]

Seanchai, There's absolutely nothing you can do. This lawsuit really won't change anything. It might shut down a piracy ring or two, but four more will just pop up in their place. Suing individuals might set an example for six months, but people will eventually settle back into their porn pirating ways.

Should they be charged? Sure. They're breaking the law. Good luck, with the bad PR. I think it's a fat waste of time and money, though.

[Deege]

At the end of the day, if something can be viewed or listened to, it can be copied. Sad, but true.

[giovanni_hotel]

How were the defendants in the lawsuit chosen??

[GroobySteven]

Here is a dumb solution.....put your content in HD so that 1 video is 1 gig.
Provide a higher product to your customers which makes transferring these files harder to do.

It doesn't make it any harder, if it was too large for a customer to download we'd lose customers - with current cable speeds most people can download fast. The cable companies are the one group who have made money from illegal downloads with no responsibility, if you look at the amount they've grown in the past few years the correlation to piracy, is apparent.

[GroobySteven]

Seanchai, There's absolutely nothing you can do. This lawsuit really won't change anything. It might shut down a piracy ring or two, but four more will just pop up in their place. Suing individuals might set an example for six months, but people will eventually settle back into their porn pirating ways.

Should they be charged? Sure. They're breaking the law. Good luck, with the bad PR. I think it's a fat waste of time and money, though.

I don't think there is any expectation of shutting own a piracy "ring" (is there such a thing?) but by hitting individuals we hope to set an example and also bring in some revenue as compensation for our losses.

[GroobySteven]

How were the defendants in the lawsuit chosen??

Some files were identified, they used their software to find out who downloaded it.

[Niccolo]

So all that crap at the beginning of the thread when you cried about Russian and Eastern European crime 'rings' (is there such a thing?) was just bullshit. You know perfectly well that you won't achieve a damn thing in the long term, and you have failed to make the case that a download = a lost sale. So now, you say that you're doing this pour encourages les outres, and ... wait for it ... to make money. The former clearly isn't going to work. I'm sure you know that perfectly well. You're only doing this to make money. That was put to you several times earlier on, and you tried to weasel out of acknowledging that. Oh well, at least we all know now.

[kyoJecours]

i'm finding it hard to have sympathy for people in the porn industry. ok what's happening is legally wrong but it's not as if the porn world is some sort of moral highground. it's the same as people downloading music for free... yes industy people are missing out on income but the way they brainwash, exploit and manipulate the public i couldn't really give a fuck. plus i get free tunes