Has anyone been arrested for using illegal movie websites?

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No but awhile back my internet was shut off and embarrassingly had to call em to get it restored because of a tv episode download , which by the way was on a cable network that I already pay for it basically comes down to harassment because I didn't watch the advertisements. You will never make enough money for them.

Maybe in some third world country or something. Worst I've experienced is an e-mail for a torrent like 6 years ago. Nothing since.

>Local flea market.
>A dude has a shop there inside a building.
>Wall to fucking wall bootleg movies.
>Movies that just came out. "Korean subtitles, you get the idea what kinda piracy it is."
>He just prints the shit up in a fake case and disc label.
>Sales for $20
How long you been here?
>Over 10 years.
How he has not got caught, I wouldn't even know, he is there 3 days a week selling the shit off.

Police won't waste their resources on people downloading content. It's the people who mass-distribute content that tend to get arrested

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yep, I only get letters when I seed

that's because watchdog groups can only complain about IPs that connect to them and upload. Used to be different, until they were caught seeding like madmen and a stink was raised.

Yeah basically this but you do got to also watch out for them actually shutting it off once to scare you as what happened to me I hadn't used torrents since not that I was that huge at it these days and like I said what I technically did is totally under fair use but these companies don't care. Hell if they could they would charge per person per hit of the play button with 50 different forced watch advertisements. We have no control anymore even if we do the right thing.

If you're American you will get shot.

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>tfw remember markets full of burnt DVD and cheap plastic cases with covers printed on cheap bland paper where newest flick cost like 1€

>the right thing
the legal thing =/= the right thing
There is nothing morally wrong with copying, calling it 'piracy' doesn't change that.

Yeah I know I should've put quotes on "right" there. The "right" thing according to them is where I was going. What I did in that specific case was fair use.

>Equating copyright infringement with extortion on the high seas.
Talk about intellectual dishonesty.

when I was a lad my friend's dad worked for the Navy and would come back with bootleg DVDs. they had tear inducing plot summaries on the back. plus the hilarious photoshop covers.

>making it sound awesome
>thinking that'll make it stop

they really shot themselves in the foot

there are some cases where people were asked to pay a fine, just google "fined for downloading".
not gonna read the articles but I don't think anyone ever paid anything.

They blocked them here in Australia

there were a few times back in the napster days where record labels would sue single mothers for millions over single songs.

For some odd reason no one was on the side of the label, trying to protect it's intellectual property.

I never personally have watched GoT but I read that you guys are like constantly the number one pirater of it because of how shit it is to do legitly or something?

it's because the fines were preposterous. labels reacted like fuckin dr evil.

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Yeah, you can only watch it on Foxtel which will cost you $25 a month plus hundreds of dollars to install it

get in here guys, doesn't matter if you're not british

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The 25 doesn't seem "too" bad compared to us cable rates which can go triple that/ I guess depending on how many channels you get but that install fee sounds like total bullshit and I completely understand why people wouldn't get it.

Well now they have a streaming service, it's called Foxtel Now you can get the 'drama pack' and you get HBO and FX and AMC shows same time as the U.S., but that's only a recent innovation and people are used to just pirating GoT after so many years

Just change DNS server, it takes two minutes.

Ah. My cable co (Charter Spectrum) does have an app and site to stream our lineup but unless I'm at home within a connection on their network or something it does limit which specific live tv networks I can watch. But basically free reign of it on my desktop at home (not that i need it I also have a box in the same room)