well haha if you actually read the article you begin to comprehend that the usa is involved with the communication. And that this issue does not just effect Russians but everyone as a whole as the goverment tries to fight for their "perfect world" the people try and fight for theirs. And also since i take it you didnt read it, ill mention that the communcations mention that they realize the laws are out of date with current technology but technology none the less should adhere to out dated laws. hmmmmm still care what the russians want? But i suppose if you one of those piracy is theft type of people then i guess WHO CARES WHAT RUSSIA WANTS!!
Piracy is such a sham. If the people aren't willing to pay for movies, the movies will eventually get "shittier". Then the money will finally stop going to paying these dumbass celebrities for these already shitty remade movies. People should support movies they enjoy so there will continue to be a market for it, and they do, through theater costs. People only know how to make other people pay money these days, rather then just paying money themselves. All the same to me, I don't watch any of these bullpoppy movies. The ones I do watch, the makers were convicted not through money but through art.
And so this simple thought saves the human race, where the desire to acheive in this world is stimulated by the expression of a individual or collective not by the false illusion of money... therefore i say YAY to piracy as it crushes the mind numbing stupidity and emotional manipulation of cinema today to make way for cinema as it was meant to be.
I'm no expert on internet piracy, but I don't think shutting down youtube is going to stop any meaningful amount of piracy. Also, if the companies selling DVDs cared about piracy (and the money they supposedly lose from it), they would try to compete with them. Instead they just defer to retarded corporations like the MPAA and RIAA, which will never be able to touch the vast, vast majority of "pirates".
Is it illegal to downloiad movies from the internet in Russia? And in the US? It's perfectly legal here to download but not to distribute.
True but that means they're breaking the law, not me. I can download movies through torrents all I want.
Unless you modify your preferences in your bittorent client (e.g. uTorrent, vuze, etc.) to completely disallow uploading, you will be uploading (distributing) while you download. Also, I believe if you are accessing a server in a different country, you are subject to that countries' laws. Not completely sure on this though.
MPAA and RIAA are the most "communist" of organizations! They are all about censorship. Hasn't anyone wondered what happened to all the anti-war music that was so prevalent in the 70s? Even of Destruction FTW! RIAA and MPAA are there to make sure that artists cannot act independently to bring a message to the masses. If stars don't behave, their contracts are in jeopardy. If they really push the issue, they are discredited, defamed and eventually die of mysterious drug overdoses. Or they just wind up being normal, pissed-off and pissed-on folks like the rest of us. I support piracy. Seriously. The idea of taking something that is infinitely reproducable and selling each copy at full retail value? Bullshit. There should be a profit cap, or a clause like with patents where at a certain point a song or movie is no longer afforded property rights. Software devs, at least, have a leg to stand on because they constantly maintain and upgrade their code and offer updates. How the hell do you "update" a song to version 2.0. I want to request Stairway to Heaven V4.4.354 please? Movies are bad enough. Songs? You can't own longer than it takes to pass through your lips.
Yeah I know. I don't do that so I do break the law. Not by downloading but by uploading. Fortunately they don't do shit about it. And yeah I might be subject to another country's laws as well. I hope I don't get nabbed on vacation.
An example for clarification: if you, in the Netherlands, are downloading a torrent of some American movie from a machine in the US, where it is illegal to download, you are breaking US law. As I said before, I am not entirely sure this is true. Feel free to prove me wrong. I break several US laws every day and my record is pretty clean other than a few traffic violations, so I wouldn't be too worried about it even if I am right.
I think you're probably right, if downloading movies is illegal in the US. Is it? I don't give a shit about breaking any laws on piracy though... I'm more concerned about intelligence agencies misinterpreting my internet history and thinking I'm up to no good.
If the movie is copyrighted, yes, downloading a copy is illegal. Edit: Showings inside your home appear to be legal, but a showing outside the "privacy of a home setting" is considered a public performance and is illegal except in the case of express permission and "educational exemption". I am up to no good, but I know how to protect myself from the feds; however, there's no need to hide right now though. The only thing they have on me is server-side which is circumstantial. My data is safe.
Just be careful if you're really up to no good, not every government obeys its own laws. They can make you disappear if they want to.
Sign up for a virtual server with a cloud service provider. Savvis, Rackspace, Azure and Ec2 are good. Install your P2P app of choice and run PeerGuardian. Being behind a corporate network IP range provides you with much more protection. Currently, most of what is scanned for pirating are public IP blocks provided to consumers by an ISP.