BT Ordered to Block Pirate Sites

[stealthwolf]

How many people here borrow stuf from friends or family? Borrow a dvd to watch , a game to play etc. They (the respective industries) want to stop this.

How many buy secondhand/used/preowned stuff? Again, they want to block this.

Why? Money of course.

I have a mate who buys loads of DVDs (legally). I'll borrow a few to watch (this is apparently illegal), return them and buy my own copy of the ones that were good. If he doesn't have what I'm after, I'll either buy when it's bargain basement price eg £3 or buy from ebay secondhand. Now I didn't pay to watch a few of those DVDs. I thought they were crap and not worth wasting money on. I see no difference between this and downloading something and watching. What happens to the download is the interesting bit. With the DVD, I'd return it. The download should be deleted but isn't - it's usually kept, copied and passed on (which I disagree with).

As for secondhand, again they want to stop this. Games companies are stopping people from playing online using a secondhand game, unless they pay an additional fee (proposed system). Contentious issue IMO. A (exaggerated) parallel could be buying a car. If you buy brand new, you could use it on the roads. Buy secondhand, and you'd be restricted to your own private area.

[F17BAD]

Seriously though, after dj-ing and collecting vinyl for nearly 10yrs I've paid a silly amount of money into the system...I also still support legit versions but £7:99 for alias of 1,0s on a drive that may fail I don see the costings there TBH. That's why people DL. I only ever bought vinyl and still only buy vinyl...I'd never pay money for mp3 unless it wasn't available in another format. And even then I'd prefer to blag a copy rather than pay.

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Iv been DJ'ng and collecting Vinyl since 1989.. iv paid daft amonts into the system, I have over 10k records in my collection. the clubs i play in pay money too
A lot of the music is now only avaliable via DL. i get many many promos sent for free but i still purchase DL music in MP3 format. £1.50 per tune is not so bad and its always good to help support the DJs and producers

[jimbooboo]

If i wanna preview a song i just find it on youtube. Sometimes I don't bother buying it and just keep listening to it on there.

[leigh_harty]

What would the deal be with renting movies? lovefilm for example?

[Jay]

What would the deal be with renting movies? lovefilm for example?

That's done with consent from the industry, otherwise they'd be sued and shutdown by now.

[leigh_harty]

What would the deal be with renting movies? lovefilm for example?

That's done with consent from the industry, otherwise they'd be sued and shutdown by now.

But they are still doing what piracy is doing, but making more money off it?

[Mitching]

Renting is pretty much licensing something, you buy a license to use that product for a certain amount of time.

[bobotheclown]

So only BT users are blocked from newzbin2? I can still access it.

[dTEA]

So only BT users are blocked from newzbin2? I can still access it.

Other ISPs will need to be taken to court or may choice to follow suit of their own volition.

[Steve_PD]

being blocked in october apparently