One way to make piracy obsolete

too bad this means only losses for the middle-men, that also pump millions into lobbying for increasingly stupid IP laws - so it's not likely to happen :/

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This is simple, Netflix was almost there a decade ago, but they decided to start producing shitty geo-locked content and adopt a shitty price model.
- Media companies also stopped leasing their content to Netflix so they could make their own crappy streaming services. It wasn’t just Netflix’s fault.

This is a very extraordinarily half-baked idea at best. I think that it shows promise, but the concept of centralizing all of the possible income for artists who are known to be very expressive about their views, political or otherwise, and not always pro government narrative. Seems like a very bad idea to say the least.
- agree about media.gov, acess to the created media should ideally happen in a distributed way (funkwhale?) with a government provided service as a free tax-funded default.
  i don't agree that centralising payout like that is an issue that limits creative output. most free democracies already do similar stuff to what is proposed here, although usually bound to specific programs and grants.
  
  Look how corrupt programs and grants end up being too

We have this in Czechia, everyone is kinda expected to pirate even though distributing (seeding & hosting) copyrighted content is illegal.
The tariffs, collected on sale of media/copying devices, are roughly:
HDDs/SSDs: $2 / unit + $1 / 250 GB
USB drives, phones: $1 / 16 GB
Portable audio/video players with built-in storage: 3 % of price
Printers without scanners: ~3 % of price
Copiers: ~6 % of price
CD-R: $0.02
CD-RW: $0.08
DVD±R: $0.05
DVD±RW/RAM, other optical RW media: $0.20
DVD burner: IDK, likely several dollars
Analog audio casette: $0.08/piece
Analog video casette: $0.08 (or $0.06 if under 180 min)
Yeah, the fees are often 10 % or more of the price of an HDD. Moreover, the system does not alleviate charges for the crime of unauthorized distribution, and the fees are collected by a private agency (OSA) that keeps 30 % for “enforcement”, 30 % goes to artists and the rest goes to book publishers, music labels and movie studios. The agency also collects fees for broadcasting and playing music (including live performances).
Piracy is rampant, mostly via the site uloz.to. Every kid can use the site (advanced users can bypass rate limits or “stream” by playing a file that's being downloaded) but I would prefer a decentralized solution. A popular Czech torrent tracker has just been shut down, anyone know any alternatives on the clear or dark net?
- I have been using sktorrent which is quite a nice alternative because the movies have Czech dub aswell
- Portugal here, we also have those kinds of taxes on hard drives and physical media in order to "save the artists". The reality is that the money goes for a gov agency that essentially doesn't help any artist. ;)

I hate copyright. even if they didn't get rido f it compeletey then would be awesome if theysd at least massively scale back the amount of time they can have a copyright liek to maybe 5-10 years max and make them non-transferable (no fucking buying companies jsut to get their copyrights)

I quickly skimmed the video because I don't have 17 min to be talked at right now, but if I recall, this has been done in the past. He may have mentioned it though.
"Music" CD-R's had an additional tax that went to copyright holders. They were the same discs, just more expensive.
I was told by administratiin that a bit of my (and classmates) college tuition went to copyright holders to cover expected copyright use.
And there was a plan to tax ISP's but I think that one failed to launch.
- he does mention that as a weak attempt and more as an example of what not to do.
  i think his premise assumes IP law doesn't exist and economies based on it would fade away. what czechia has is additional to the existing system and thus moot

Ah, hm, we have this in Germany, plus huge fees by lawyers hired by copyright holders when getting caught file sharing. Win Win
- GEMA is not really the same as this though... and regardless germany just tacked this onto an existing unchanged IP law. the video proposed to drop any notion of IP in regards to media, making copyright lawsuits obsolete

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is there a text version or summary of this?
- https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=PJSTFzhs1O4
  Here is the transcription gathered from the subtitles on the video.
- That would be a neat bot idea. Strip the subtitles and generate a little "article" or summary.
  
  You mean, like a Browser addon?
  
  That would be pretty neat if something like that existed.
  https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=PJSTFzhs1O4

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