Apple has joined the rest of the major video platforms in the fight against piracy of audiovisual content. It took Apple a year to realize that its Apple TV + they don't just flow over the internet from your servers.
Now it is part of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an association created by the world's major video platforms to fight piracy of audiovisual material. We will see if they can eradicate this fraudulent practice of "downloading movies from the internet" at once.
I have a friend who often laughs at me. I am subscribed to Movistar +, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Disney +. He is not on any platform. Well, see all the content you want from these platforms and all the others without any problem, without being subscribed to them and without paying a Euro. I find it ugly, very ugly. I just wish that there are not many users like him, and that they end up shutting down the servers that host pirated material. The dog is dead, the rabies is dead.
And that is the will of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. The ACE is an association whose main objective is to fight against the piracy of audiovisual content that runs on the internet. Apple has just joined the association, to defend its rights against those who violate the famous «Copyright«.
ACE is the form of the great American producers
Apple will be on the group's board of directors, along with Amazon and the six members of the Motion Picture Association: Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. The ACE was created in 2017. Netflix was the last to join last year.
ACE investigates websites and servers that encourage piracy, and sellers of hardware that can help facilitate the end user such fraudulent download. Such illegal services often offer unlimited movies and live television for a monthly price well below market rates, and sometimes claim to have legitimate access to pirated content.
The alliance is presenting lawsuits and it has already won significant lawsuits against such operators, often forcing them to terminate their services. The problem comes when such servers are hosted in countries where anti-piracy laws are usually very lax.
Toni, in Spain, and since the inclusion of the controversial «Canon for private copying», which as its name indicates, charges an extra cost for the acquisition of any element, equipment or format capable of copying a digital file (even if they are movies or photographs ), downloading a digital file for your own consumption is not a crime. Another thing is the web page that is enriched with the publicity obtained by the diffusion of the download links, since that, if it is penalized, for profit.
Your friend is not committing any crime, at least with Spanish law in hand, since paying the "canon" automatically protects him. Another thing is that then he made a profit in some way, which does not seem to be the case.
We could enter all the ethical evaluations and surely in many I agree with you. Don't be so hard on your friend… 😉
Good deal. Well, I rectify. My friend is within the law, but what he does is very ugly ... Salut! 😉