Copyright Violation - Getting caught pirating.
There will always be a reason to pirate. In Australia television shows aired months to a year after they premiered in America. What was new to us was old to them. In a globalised culture it was paramount for the world to see the same content at the same time so that it could be discussed on forums.
Australia wised up eventually and started airing shows shortly after the American release, but not instantaneous.
Welcome to the World of Today!
As soon as a television show is released in America it can either be streamed or torrented hours after being shown.
This means when Breaking Bad is aired in America, everyone around the world can discuss and speculate simultaneously.
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Is watching a television show for free worse than cooking and distributing crystal meth?
According to the Motion Picture Association of America's famous movie trailer, if you steal a movie you might as well steal a car. Except to download a car it would be devastating to one's bandwidth.
If I could pay for a service to watch television shows as they are released and it was reasonably priced I would pay for it. In fact, Norway's rate of piracy has decreased by 80% since 2008 due to convenient legal alternatives. Source.
Image stolen from - http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/piracy-drops-dramatically-in-norway/
Whereas piracy is the use of information you do not own, copyright is the infringement of intellectual property to profit.
In layman's terms piracy is what a consumer will take from a producer and copyright infringement is what a producer will take from another producer.
When a musician uses a clip from a song he can be forced to give payments to the original artist. A song cannot be used in a movie if it has not been authorised by the copyright owner otherwise the producers of the movie can get sued.
In conclusion, keep pirating. Even if you don't have to. It isn't about stealing information, it is about sending a message. Through us being radical pirates we are making the world a better place for future generations. But don't violate copyright laws, you might get caught.
Sources
Martin, B,
Moore, C and Salter, C. 2010, ‘Sharing music files: tactics of a challenge to
the industry’, First Monday, vol. 15, no. 12, [available: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2986/2680].
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/piracy-drops-dramatically-in-norway/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_bad
Hello Kris,
ReplyDeleteI agree that piracy in Australia has become a common behaviour for most people in society. We hold a close relationship with America and If Australia does not keep up to date with their release dates piracy is likely to continue. I enjoyed reading your opinion about piracy and liked how you discussed an approach to avoiding this behaviour by linking it to an example from Norway.
A few areas of adjustments that would help make your post stronger would be changing the hyperlinks source (Wikipedia) to a scholarly source and editing a few grammatical errors. Thanks for the read! Well done
Welcome to the world of today indeed! Thank you for your insightful and refreshing post. I actually posted making some similar comments over at my blog as well (http://globalisedgamers.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/week-4-game-of-piracy.html if your interested). It certainly is tragic that in this world with streaming technology and Internet access content producers insist on gating content for different countries. Marvel’s Agents of Shield just released in the US this week, and channel 7 is not airing it until next week… needless to say I have already watched it. While I don’t necessarily agree with the previous commenter that your hyperlinks need to link to academic sources (it’s a blog hyperlinks to wikis are fine) I do feel that some of your arguments would have been stronger if you could back them up with some reference to academic work. However, I do recognize that much of this post is in a tongue in cheek tone, and it was a refreshing read, thank you!
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