Tbh though, I feel like in this day and age they're gonna have a hard time cracking down on torrents. VPNs are easier to use and more accessible than ever. Just remember to recommend VPN usage when someone asks about trackers, torrent programs, etc.

Edit: also this is pure bullshit, I can't believe anyone actually believes this in this day and age:

In his speech on Tuesday, Rivkin highlights what a major problem piracy in the US has become, saying it costs “hundreds of thousands of jobs” and “more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales.”

Pretending it actually does hurt ticket sales, you know damn well companies wouldn't use the money to hire more people, Rivkin. They'd use the money to find new ways of cutting costs, aka jobs.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 52 points 7 months ago

I'm down 6 trilly in sales. I'm not selling anything but its the potential that counts.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If someone actually want to see the movie in a theater, they are going to buy a ticket since watching a shaky cell phone recording is in no way comparable to actually watching a movie on the big screen.

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Who the hell is still watching cam rips?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 7 months ago

I don't know. I watched about 5 minutes of one once before deleting it and never downloaded another cam after that. Obviously the MPA thinks a lot of people are watching them if they are still whining about it.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty much all you can find while a movie is in first run. Most sites I know of will actually delete prerelease movies (that aren't cam rips) because they bring too much negative attention.

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

I remember watching The Purge in a movie theater with my dad. After the movie, i found out from my friend there was already a rip (clear copy) in torrent sites.

I'm not sure if my country (in SEA region) is just slower in releasing movies compared to the west or if the movie is just not good in theaters so theres already dvd for it.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago

Absolutely no one.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Also, they just translate estimated number of downloads to potentially sold tickets 1:1 (they always have). As if a pirate would actually watch all that shit if they had to pay for it. Many probably even don't after download (like Steam games on sale).

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Especially if it's torrents on private trackers where you download stuff you don't want just to build up ratio

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Trackers that make users do that are plainly scams. Probably run by the mpaa to slow down piracy.

It creates a deadlock where nobody dowloads and nobody uploads. 500 seeds terabytes wasted, sitting with idle internet connections, nobody downloading.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Trackers that make users do that

You mean all private trackers?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm leaving space for the possibility that some of them aren't run by the average zero sum idiots that plague the internet and real life. But probably yes, all private trackers I've wasted my time joining, have been this kind of stupid shit, resource and time wasting shit.

Public trackers are far far superior and the only source of torrents to grace my seedboxes.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

You don't know what you're missing, good private trackers are much, much better.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

glances at my 8TB drive of which maybe 10-20% actually has been watched...

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

How did you know how much of my media I’ve actually watched?

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People who watch literal recordings of movies from inside a movie theater are psychopaths who really, really don't care about quality. I highly doubt they are the target audience of movie ticket sales.

[–] noisypine@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I buy movie tickets and I also watch cams. Sometimes I watch before, because I can't make it to the theater yet, sometimes afterwards so I can have a repeat watch. Sometimes I watch and the movie is trash, so I save money to spend on a different one. Sometimes the cam rips aren't good enough to watch, other times, they are near DVD quality.

I have been watching cams and going to the movie theater since the 90s and I doubt that will change, but I never understand the hatred aimed at people who watch cams. Why bash on people who are enjoying something that you do not?

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 6 points 7 months ago

At this point it's just a meme. I mean I definitely don't get it, but I have nothing against you as a person lol.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

As we've seen the past couple years companies NEVER fire people! UNLESS people are STEALING their Products!

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 7 months ago

Trackers already do this. It's impossible to actually hide your IP without a proxy. Trackers insert fake/random IPs into the list. DMCA requests require the requesting party to actually download a chunk of data successfully because of it.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's a way to obscure IPs on the side of a torrent tracker. Like an inverse VPN.

The torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, all clients connect directly to each other. The tracker is just there to tell how clients to connect to each other, and that requires IP addresses.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

I don’t think that’s true for I2P torrents; there are a number of hops between you, the tracker and peers.