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Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites

posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the It-aint-easy-being-free-dept dept.

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The Australian government is having stream ripping sites blocked by ISPs in the ongoing war between the MPAA and the rest of the world. New site blocking laws introduced in Australian in late 2015, and recently beefed up, provide a way for local rights holders to go after sites that facilitate the infringement of copyright. Vanessa Hutley of Music Rights Australia claims that the fact that people use these sites proves that services such as Spotify and Apple Music do not eliminate copyright violations and therefor harsher action is required.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:23AM (#800936)

    Vanessa Hutley of Music Rights Australia claims that the fact that people use these sites proves that services such as Spotify and Apple Music do not eliminate copyright violations and therefor harsher action is required.

    Let's see .... wanted to find an old movie ... not available anywhere else except streaming sites ... wow.. harsher action required?? How about providing fucking content instead? Oh wait, they just want more money.

    https://www.recode.net/2017/8/9/16116620/watch-disney-movies-leaving-netflix-streaming [recode.net]

    Same thing for Amazon Prime. They had movies in one spot, now they want subscription to "channels" instead?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:56AM (#800950)

    There's heaps of movies from the 70's and 80's and 90's I would love to watch.

    A while back I read an article that proposed the theory that the reason why those old movies and TV shows are not available is to make the new content more appealing.

    Strangely, Netflix has got me addicted to Korean and Chinese shows. I don't even speak the language and have to read subtitles like back when I watched subbed anime. Maybe the old stuff isn't needed, but it would be nice.