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Earlier this week we received a leaked presentation covering the results of a Google Fiber survey conducted on behalf of Warner Bros and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The research was conducted in 2012 and aimed to get a baseline of the piracy levels, so changes can be measured after the rollout.
[...] Drawing on an MPAA formula that counts all pirated views as losses the report notes that it may cost Hollywood over a billion dollars per year. That’s a rather impressive increase of 58% compared to current piracy levels. The research also finds a link between piracy and broadband speeds, which is another reason for Hollywood not to like Google’s Internet service.
[...] What’s most striking from the above approach is the way the studios frame Google Fiber as a piracy threat, instead of looking at the opportunities it offers.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday January 02 2015, @07:10AM
First thing they need is a brain. They seem incapable of grasping even the most basic implications of technological advance.
For those who do understand that they are asking the impossible and being very anti-social about it, some humble pie is in order. Start by firing them from their jobs, and clawing back whatever wealth they stole from artists and their companies. Likely they broke laws, and they should face lots of litigation for that. Even some jail time should be a possibility.
Then, some changes to the law are in order. When they are in Shock and Awe over the utter destruction of their old business model, and beginning to understand that their way of thought is history, and counts for even less than the most discredited, backwards lunatic fringe group like the Flat Earthers, and that if they are remembered at all, it will be bad memories, and like the Spanish Inquisition, an example of how not to define and address a problem, then perhaps they will quietly concede, if only privately, that they were wrong, and crawl under the nearest rock to spend the rest of their sorry little lives crying about being ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02 2015, @02:09PM
This is probably about compelling Google into implementing real-time content inspection and throttling like some cable providers do. Frankly I don't see how cable companies can call it "Internet" service, when the product you receive isn't switched at layer 3.
(Score: 2) by redneckmother on Friday January 02 2015, @07:32PM
The emPHAsis is on the wrong sylLABle, as my Aunt used to say.
The point is perhaps more that the "service" is the kind a bull gives to a cow.
Mas cerveza por favor.