October 14, 2015 at 23:50Australia's online piracy declines thanks to Netflix
The Australian Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF) has published a study that indicates that online piracy in the country has declined for the first time by a fairly large proportion of the audience. If a year earlier, approximately 29% of adult Australian residents recognized the fact of illegal downloads from the Internet, now this figure is 25%. The change may seem insignificant, but in fact this has happened for the first time since the boom of digital piracy. The TorrentFreak resource drew attention to the study .
Although there is no clear link between the launch of the Netflix online movie theater in Australia and the drop in piracy, the authors of the study nevertheless tend to claim that this relationship exists. At least those “online pirates” who agreed to answer a few questions claimed that they began to download torrent files less precisely thanks to a quick and legal alternative in the form of Netflix. Interestingly, among the reasons why the "pirates" could abandon their illegal practice, they name both moral considerations and the troubles associated with the criminal prosecution.
In August it became knownon the unusual decision of the Australian federal court in the lawsuit of the copyright holder of the Hollywood movie Dallas Buyers Club. Dallas Buyers Club LLC would like to receive from the local provider a list of addresses of those users who were found to be downloading an illegal copy of the film. Suddenly, the court sided with the pirates and appealed to the federal court of Australia. Not only did he decide to recover AUS $ 600,000 from Dallas Buyers Club LLC for accessing the provider's subscriber’s personal data, he also banned them from charging unreasonably large fines if personal data was nevertheless received by the company.
As already reportedGeektimes today, in Russia, about ten torrent trackers were blocked “forever” in accordance with the law “On Amending the Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the Protection of Intellectual Rights in Information and Telecommunication Networks”. Apparently, Rutracker.org will undergo a similar blocking.
Although there is no clear link between the launch of the Netflix online movie theater in Australia and the drop in piracy, the authors of the study nevertheless tend to claim that this relationship exists. At least those “online pirates” who agreed to answer a few questions claimed that they began to download torrent files less precisely thanks to a quick and legal alternative in the form of Netflix. Interestingly, among the reasons why the "pirates" could abandon their illegal practice, they name both moral considerations and the troubles associated with the criminal prosecution.
In August it became knownon the unusual decision of the Australian federal court in the lawsuit of the copyright holder of the Hollywood movie Dallas Buyers Club. Dallas Buyers Club LLC would like to receive from the local provider a list of addresses of those users who were found to be downloading an illegal copy of the film. Suddenly, the court sided with the pirates and appealed to the federal court of Australia. Not only did he decide to recover AUS $ 600,000 from Dallas Buyers Club LLC for accessing the provider's subscriber’s personal data, he also banned them from charging unreasonably large fines if personal data was nevertheless received by the company.
As already reportedGeektimes today, in Russia, about ten torrent trackers were blocked “forever” in accordance with the law “On Amending the Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the Protection of Intellectual Rights in Information and Telecommunication Networks”. Apparently, Rutracker.org will undergo a similar blocking.