Local ISPs to stop you from pirating?

For once it pays that SA is years behind the rest of the world...
 
So far I've only seen infringement notices going to Internet Solution users.

I couldn't agree more as to what Rupert Bryant (from WA) said:
All that ends up happening is that pirates circumvent the measures and everyone else is typically irritated or inconvenienced by the inevitable, unintended consequences
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Then everyone will go and start using Seedboxes or something similar.
 
The world must just accept that you cannot stop piracy. It's the way forward... A flat-rate, yearly fee can ease the greedy film execs/music execs and allow people to download any content, cross-platform. AWE.
 
Any plan implemented to prevent piracy will inevitably be circumvented...so what's the point?
 
Besides not wanting to police users, ISPs in SA are likely also against this as they will lose customers in droves to ones that don't police users.
 
if every illegal downloader was charged $20 or so a year for downloading whatever they wanted. imagine how much money they could make.

but that will never happen. these corporations will simply say that this wouldn't help, as they wouldn't be making enough money and so on and so on blah blah blah.
 
Bryant added that “the better approach is the content giants need to realize it’s not 1990 any more and instead of trying to turn ISP’s into their police force, embrace the future and the new ways content is being consumed.”

“If media is readily made available and priced appropriately, people will use it, the economics are definitely there. Good models to follow are how Amazon is delivering their content via the Kindle devices, Netflix or Apple with iTunes,” concluded Bryant.
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Well said Bryant, exactly.
 
Amen Amen Amen ...

Bryant added that “the better approach is the content giants need to realize it’s not 1990 any more and instead of trying to turn ISP’s into their police force, embrace the future and the new ways content is being consumed.”

“If media is readily made available and priced appropriately, people will use it, the economics are definitely there. Good models to follow are how Amazon is delivering their content via the Kindle devices, Netflix or Apple with iTunes,” concluded Bryant.
 
Joker said:
Well said Bryant, exactly.
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yeah, i'm sick and tired of the same old story from media companies.
license your content locally please, or better yet, just take down regional rights.
i'm willing to pay for content. why are you not willing to sell it to me?
 
Stop asking others to do what you fail to do. Come up with a new business model that consumers will support. I buy all my books from Amazon for my Kindle and happily pay what they ask because I get fair value. They store my books for me and keep track of my progress through Whispernet. The Music and Movie industries are to frikken comfortable and greedy to come up with a better value proposition but have a ton of lawyers to dish out punishment. Mafia comes to mind.
 
Wait for june/july in the US. They are forcing the isps to block pirated goods, should be interesting to see how it goes.

Hopefully badly
 
“If media is readily made available and priced appropriately, people will use it, the economics are definitely there. Good models to follow are how Amazon is delivering their content via the Kindle devices, Netflix or Apple with iTunes,” concluded Bryant.
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Just give us netflix/hulu then 80% of my traffic would be covered.
 
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