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    Millions fine just for displaying a m3u on a website of streams they are not hosting Brein must be stupid because generally pirated streams play for a number of seconds then stop so it's free advertising for legit streaming services not a viable way of viewing illegal streams?


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    I don't know the site. Certainly there are many pirate streams that play satisfactorily, including many high quality ones. But Brein is just a symptom of the delusional state of many so-called "rights-owners". Around the world they have procured laws which are effectively unenforceable and becoming increasingly draconian. We need Copyright laws that work and serve their intended purpose, not the unjust enrichment of large corporates granted a monopoly for more than a generation. When an area is a desert with one source of water, a monopoly on selling water is valuable indeed and simply enforced. When weather patterns change and water falls from the sky and sources of it are plentiful, the monopoly fails. Though of course no doubt the existing laws take a long time to die. During which time the owner of that monopoly seeks the help of the Government to enforce it with ever more draconian penalties.

    A good product at reasonable prices and conveniently available will not eliminate piracy, but it will keep it to a minimum. Digital moves, music, books. All such media is effectively available for free to someone who is prepared to go to a little trouble to get it. Why, then, do all these industries thrive? One could argue, perhaps a little tongue in cheek, that Apple saved the music industry with ITunes. The Luddites running that industry at the time presided over Napster and all sorts of P2P services, burying their heads in the sand. But ITunes for music was just so convenient. It's prices were affordable if not always reasonable, and they made single tracks affordably available rather than resorting to bundling to force sales of albums full of tracks most buyers didn't want. People were and continue to be prepared to pay a reasonable price for having a legal copy of a guaranteed minimum quality delivered in one click straight to their devices, rather than go to a little more trouble obtaining a pirate copy for free.
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