Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    What’s funny is, if piracy is removed as an option, collectively we would all focus on the stranglehold movie production companies have, and break it up, to essentially produce the same effect. Utilising and focusing all that technical skills and ability to how do we cause things to change. By upping their game, they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

    • eggdaddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      They have been since Napster. Netflix almost killed movie/tv torrenting. It was so cheap with so much content, it was more expensive to run an HTPC setup than pay like $5/month for NF streaming. Then every company wanted their own streaming service and ships reappeared.

      It’s seems like every time someone figures out the supply issue, they come along, put in a few road blocks and charge you money to get though to what you had before for free or way less.

      To this day I still blame Lars. No talent drummer who’s entire band was a success off the back of sharing their first EP which they SAID TO DO only to turn around and sue.