The cumulative effect of poor quality, lack of ownership, and content fragmentation is pushing consumers to piracy. When legitimate options offer a worse experience than illicit ones, users will naturally gravitate to what works best for them. #MediaPiracy 5/6

Anime fan-subber groups remember when very few anime made it to America officially, and often with awful low effort dubs. We can handle this tariff, because the skills are still in living memory.
#anime #fandub #mediapiracy

Domain Anonymity and the Brilliance of Entertainment Lobbyists <blockquote><p>To rid the internet of piracy, entertainment companies are willing to greatly reduce privacy, at least where website registration is concerned.</p> <p>Where the entertainment industry views proxy registration as a pirate’s tool for obfuscation, privacy advocates see identity concealment as a feature that can enable free speech and freedom from harassment.</p></blockquote> <p>So there’s <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/hamzashaban/proposed-domain-name-rule-threatens-website-owner-anonymity">a new proposal to force any “commercial” website, which could cover pretty much anything, to have real WHOIS/contact info</a>. This is a terrible idea, and of course there are already ample and simple means to bypass proxy services being actually abused with a court order. But they want to go a step further, so potentially a parenting blogger with ads or affiliate links on their site would be forced to put their actual home address and phone number in a public directory anyone on the internet can access, or break the law. 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**Domain Anonymity and the Brilliance of Entertainment Lobbyists**
“when has the entertainment industry ever proposed something good for consumers or the internet?”
-- still a good question 10 years later.

#privacy #MediaPiracy #DomainNames #MattMullenweg #EntertainmentIndustry

Pretty darn chuffed that in a couple of weeks, I'll be in San Francisco to deliver the invited Distinguished Keynote at SFSU's 25th Cinema Conference #ethics #ai #generativeAI #digitalforgery #mediapiracy