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forwardslash  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The largest filer of copyright cases isn't Disney, or TWC, or Sony....

    as of early May, they had filed about thirty-eight per cent of all copyright suits in 2014
Holy mother of god, that is a lot of suits. This surprised me too, not only that it wasn't some organization like the MPAA or Disney but that it wasn't just some group buying up the rights to sue on behalf of others like Prenda Law. I guess this was the next logical step: if you can't outsource suing alleged pirates, do it yourself.

Though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised given that a consistent joke online and in pop culture is, "Why would you pay for porn?" It would be interesting to see the prevalence of piracy between things like Game of Thrones and porn. I know that they're different business models, I'd just like to see if my conjecture that porn is more pirated than other video entertainment.





cliffelam  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I got the impression that they are filing suits for other people as well.

IP is IP, you know?

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