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The "six-strikes" Copyright Alert System is no more. In a brief announcement, MPAA, RIAA, and several major US ISPs said that the effort to educate online pirates has stopped. It's unclear why the parties ended their voluntary agreement, but the lack of progress reports in recent years indicates that it wasn't as successful as they had hoped.
[...] The "voluntary" agreement was praised by the US Government and seen as an example for other countries, including the UK, where a similar system is about to start. At the same time, however, the Copyright Alert System members have just ended their efforts.
"After four years of extensive consumer education and engagement, the Copyright Alert System will conclude its work," the members of the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) just announced.
"The program demonstrated that real progress is possible when content creators, Internet innovators and consumer advocates come together in a collaborative and consensus-driven process."
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/the-us-six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-is-dead-170128/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @03:37AM
Because it had 0 impact on piracy.
As a developer I have next to no concern about piracy. The reason is simply because you cannot count each pirated copy as a lost sale. The only thing that is actually piracy is when you have a person that would have normally bought your product, but chose to pirate it instead. The number of people doing that, as a ratio of all pirates, is very small. Hollywood now does a much better job of keeping high-def screener copies of movies off download sites, yet somehow it's not like they're seeing millions of new box office ticket sales. Far from it. This [mrob.com] is a list of movies by theater attendance. It makes it crystal clear that Hollywood was dying long before the internet and those elusive pirates. Also keep in mind that list is not adjusted to show attendance per capita. The biggest movie was Gone with the Wind from 1939 when the world population was 1/3rd as much as today and the percentage of people with access to a theater, relative to today, would again be a fraction of that fraction. Pirates are the quixotic windmills of all the failing industries of today that grew complacent in times of minimal competition (software) and a disproportionate weighting of all entertainment options (media).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Monday January 30 2017, @03:13PM
I agree that counting pirated copies as a lost sale is weak. Some people just pirate. They'd rather pay for a VPN, usenet, and a better internet connection. They prefer to nurse their upload ratios and watch their data-caps. They like having a transcoding server and storage for dozens of terabytes of media. Those people will never be buying movies, lol.
I also agree with you on what actual piracy is and most of the time it's for convenience. The last show i pirated was Game of Thrones because of no cable sub. If the show aired at 9pm then you could usually have it by 11pm. Those kinds of shows have to be watched quick because everyone loves to spoil each episode for some reason. After HBO Now came out i got that an love it. Price could be better but the shows are great. My guess is the price is high because their cable company partners want it to be expensive.
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