Our general rule of thumb: If paying for something will lead to money in the pockets of the people who made it, you should probably pay for it.Īs Jim Gibson, law professor and founder of the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law, put it to us: “Whether it’s wrong or not, in a moral sense, is something you can ask your friends or your minister. These cases can be highly fact-specific, and we don’t endorse watching pirated content under any circumstances. We spoke with four copyright lawyers for this piece, and they all uttered some version of “it depends” during our interviews.) (Major caveat: None of this should be taken as legal advice. So what exactly constitutes illegal streaming? And what are the consequences? “The new law addresses a ‘loophole’ in criminal copyright law, under which infringing acts of reproduction or distribution triggered felony penalties yet infringing public performances (such as streaming) merely amounted to misdemeanors,” reports the international law firm Perkins Cole on. Under the new law, the Department of Justice can bring felony charges against providers (as opposed to users) of such illegal services,” according to the U.S. Previously, illegal streaming was treated as a misdemeanor. Within that, the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020 (PLSA) increases criminal penalties for those who, on a large scale, “willfully and for commercial advantage or private financial gain, illegally stream copyrighted material. In December 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020 economy at least $29.2 billion in lost revenue each year.” Economy report by the Global Innovation Policy Center estimates “that global online policy costs the U.S. The Impacts of Digital Piracy on the U.S. In fact, streaming accounts for 80% of piracy in the U.S.
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Stats on unlicensed streaming are hard to pin down, but estimates range from 53% of millennials accessing illegal streams in one month to 78.5 billion visits to piracy sites in 2015.Īnd with more and more (and more and more) streaming services entering the fray - and adding digits to TV bills - every month, it’s unlikely we’ll see a slowdown anytime soon.
“If you go around the world, I think you’re right, that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world,” Time Warner exec Jeff Bewkes said in 2013. For reference, that’s 54 million people - around three million more than the population of South Korea. More than 75% of them did so through a pirated stream or download. Within 24 hours of airing, more than 71 million people had watched the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones.
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