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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago

“The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

This argument is not very convincing, and I highly doubt there's any evidence to support it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Godzirraaaa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I killed Shinzo Abe

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s alleged that without obtaining permission from rightsholders, the men – who appear to work for the same company – ‘extracted’ the text and other distinuishing features from the movies, added relevant images, then displayed the resulting articles on a website.

“As a result of the police investigation, it was discovered that the company’s management and employees had conspired to systematically commit copyright infringement, and had operated the website for profit, attracting a large number of hits.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ooh, yeah, that's a bit different... Not a good look

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The dummies should've used an AI to extract the text, that way there woulda been no culprit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It’s alleged that without obtaining permission from rightsholders, the men – who appear to work for the same company – ‘extracted’ the text and other distinuishing features from the movies, added relevant images, then displayed the resulting articles on a website.

So... A makeshift script? Isn't that like copying song lyrics? Its the idea, not the expression?