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schnurrito ( schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Technology · 1 year ago

Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws

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Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws

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schnurrito ( schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Technology · 1 year ago
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Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order I…
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    Piracy is a service problem. Allow us to just buy DRM free files for movies and TV like both the music and games industry do and you’ll have much fewer pirates.

    Get rid of the 20 million streaming services and just allow us to purchase the things we want outright without DRM from the comfort of our internet connected devices and this problem will lessen.

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      No, piracy shield was born for live football matches.

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        I was talking more generally but thank you for the information.

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          I agree with the general idea, but this is not so simple. Also, piracy shield is very bad (and ineffective, apparently)

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