Video pirates will remain afloat

In the Netherlands, the Date Center was arrested, which supplied illegal videos all of Russia. What next?

At the request of the copyright holders, the Moonwalk Streaming player’s servers were disconnected - it was built into 80% of pirate sites in Russia, on which users watched films and TV shows for free. The Dutch copyright protection fund (Brein) said that the most popular Runet cinema sites had almost 90 million unique visitors per month. According to the fund, 26 thousand films and more than 10 thousand series were also stored on the service. The owners of the player themselves were profitable from advertising, which was built into it-in particular, advertising online casinos and bookmakers. A member of the Pirate Party of Russia Alexander Isavnin told the “new” about the emergence of the market of online cinemas and how this blocking will affect Russian spectators of free cinema on the Internet.

Alexander Isavnin

Pirate Party of Russia

- It makes sense to get to the user in the most convenient way for him. Previously, the copyright holders, roughly speaking, thinking that they will be able to extract excessive benefits, in every possible way limited the availability of this or that content for users. Therefore, at first “torrents” appeared, and they were quite convenient and turned out to be more convenient than going to buy a ticket to the cinema or wait 3-4 months (how many copyright holders withstand) in order to get something on DVD. And then go to the store and buy it DVD. “Torrents” allowed users to quickly access the content. Unfortunately, perhaps not the most profitable way for the copyright holder.

Then, if you recall the story, legal cinemas appeared. We have Apple, Netflix, HBO and so on. They provided and provide access to a certain amount of content for reasonable money.

Then, of course, the “torrents” developed in online cinemas, because people began to get used to using online services. And there was someone who provided access to the content in the most convenient way for the user. Let by monetizing this with an advertisement. These cinemas were used to watch content on which copyright holders imposed tough restrictions. There were optional main films.

There were rare films, series that Western copyright holders did not sell to Russia and it is impossible to watch them in the Russian cinema or in Russian on the Internet legally.

There were simply those who provided more convenient access to the widest masses of users, given their interests, and not the interests of copyright holders.

Accordingly, now the closure of the service in Holland will lead to the fact that it will open somewhere else. They closed one - another will appear. Here they closed the service that gave the content [online cinema]. Because the online cinemas themselves worked and continue to work like a showcase, and the content itself is saved in another place. Some online cinemas, of course, began to experience problems, but after some time they will certainly find a new method of delivery. And here no information security gurus will help.

It is necessary to change the approach to the so -called intellectual property and more significantly protect consumers, and not Hollywood distributors and wholesale sellers who make money on content under the guise of copyright protection.