100M : The Pirate Bay is blocked

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by vmfriend

Ah so you pay for a VPN not to pay for something else = genius

most piracy is due to lack of availability. But I find it funny others keep thinking otherwise. Note how someone has even said in this very thread how poor the UK version of netflix is compared to the US version. The media companies are hooked onto regional distribution models.

The cat and mouse game continues tho, the lost MPAA/RIAA will keep spending money making MP's rich to get dodgy laws passed, and everyone else meanwhile will go underground so they can no longer even monitor things again like the 80s. When they stop been able to monitor it they will think its fixed.

If most piracy is due to lack of availability, how come so many people (including some on this forum) download programmes from the US which are shown in the UK a few days later?

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Hugh

If most piracy is due to lack of availability, how come so many people (including some on this forum) download programmes from the US which are shown in the UK a few days later?

Because its not available in the uk for 3 days. your question had the answer in it.

TV show downloads get 90% of their traffic within 24 hours of air time.

Ooooh - three days.....

Perhaps if people had more patience, there would be less monitoring/blocking - we don't need everything now.

[kwikbreaks]

There are lots of reasons to download TV shows.

I'll download UK TV shows so I can watch them on a TV that isn't connected to my FoxSat box at a time of my choice. If I could transfer FoxSat HD programs to an alternate disk easily I'd probably do that instead. I also forget to watch or record stuff and downloading an HD mkv version gives much better quality than iPlayer can.

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Umm...

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bit...isnt-good-idea

You are confusing two different things. As well as guarding privacy a TOR proxy will bypass the VM IP block which is what this thread is about rather than privacy.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Ooooh - three days.....

Perhaps if people had more patience, there would be less monitoring/blocking - we don't need everything now.

yes noone has patience

of course some stuff isnt available full stop, eg. I am guilty of downloading past F1 races which I could not find available commercially at all.

Same with football games, they usually cannot be purchased after the live event.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Howzie

Look carefully and PB is not the only site blocked that evokes Virgins kind message.

So what are the other sites

[cook1984]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Umm...

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bit...isnt-good-idea

Don't worry, I only use it to access web sites that are blocked and when I want privacy (so all the time then...), not for torrents.

[roughbeast]

Never bothered with the pirate sites; too limiting. I find what I want at isohunt.com or using the Vuze search engine. BtGuard, slows my torrent download speeds a bit, but even 3d films of 40Gb are in my hands within 24 hours.

I guess isohunt and similar search sites will be targeted next. Even so they will never stop sharing. Torrents are location free.

[cook1984]

Originally Posted by Hugh

If most piracy is due to lack of availability, how come so many people (including some on this forum) download programmes from the US which are shown in the UK a few days later?

It's easier. They come in a handy format ready for my media centre and thanks to RSS feeds download automatically and area ready when I get home from work. If I wait for them to be shown here I have to program the PVR, then strip out to skip the annoying ads.

It's all just degrees. I never watch ads because I find them insulting and utterly banal. If the media companies had their way your armchair would strap you in every time an ad break came on and force your eyes open. After all ads are their revenue stream so getting up to make a cut of tea is stealing money from them.

Somehow TV seems to be surviving the piracy, PVR and tea-making onslaught. Avengers just broke the record for most money taken on the opening weekend. Adele just passed Michael Jackson's Bad for album sales. If anything you could conclude that piracy seems to increase revenues.

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Ooooh - three days.....

Perhaps if people had more patience, there would be less monitoring/blocking - we don't need everything now.

Technology shows us we don't need to have patience.

But, it's really only about an industry that is losing it's power trying to control it's competitors. It's 9:45pm and we're not in a cinema or watching TV, so I guess we must be pirates.

Originally Posted by cook1984

I never watch ads because I find them insulting and utterly banal.

They're basically my reason for cancelling my cable, 30% of any hour is adverts. Take a look at the runtime of a show like M.A.S.H. Then look at The Big Bang Theory they've managed to get an extra 5 minutes in in the last 30 years.

Originally Posted by Hugh

If most piracy is due to lack of availability, how come so many people (including some on this forum) download programmes from the US which are shown in the UK a few days later?

Good question.Seems it's also down to lack of patience from the I want it all and I want it all NOW generations.

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Good question.Seems it's also down to lack of patience from the I want it all and I want it all NOW generations.

Did you see the story of the 92 year old veteran copying dvd's for the American soldiers on tours of duty. Some people never mind their age just get technology

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[rogerdraig]

hmm i a normaly against the "want it now" thing but on this i would say if i didnt have to try and avoid all spoilers ( something you try to do here ) from all the media friends ect the wanting at the same time as the states wouldnt be a problem

also if virgin sky etc made it easier to move programs to other devices it would help too. but hey why should i be able to watch other than on the main tv later than shown. sky go is a start but not as good as other sources yet

Originally Posted by _wtf_

Did you see the story of the 92 year old veteran copying dvd's for the American soldiers on tours of duty. Some people never mind their age just get technology

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Nice irrelevant straw man argument....

Some people, no matter their age, just get copyright infringement.....