Russian government legalizes piracy of TV Movies and Games

In a move to alleviate the loss of entertainment options for the Russian people, the government has made it legal to download content from the web of pirated TV shows movies, and games.

News source: www.ign.com...

I don't think this is a done deal yet but let's face it most pirated content of this type already comes from Russia and other Eastern European nations already so this is not a huge stretch but the fact the government is looking at making it official makes it look like these places will be spilling out more content in the near future.

a reply to: machineintelligence

Maybe they'll legalize hacking next.

a reply to:machineintelligence

I doubt it really has to do with their peoples entertainment ...more so a move to damage companies which they feel are wronging them with these sanctions.

Does it suit you that the English Queen Elizabeth I gave a knighthood to a pirate Francis Drake?

"Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship with 25,000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37,000 ducats of Spanish money (about £7m by modern standards). Drake also discovered news of another ship, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which was sailing west towards Manila. It would come to be called the Cacafuego. Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved his most profitable capture." - en.wikipedia.org...

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It may be tough for people who are struck in their sad minimalist two party binary mentality to realize this thread is about Russia which doesn't have a Democrat or Republican Party.

Before I make up my mind if this is good or bad can you tell me if this will hurt Hollywood in anyway?

a reply to: turretless
I'm pretty sure that England and Spain were at war at the time. So it wasn't piracy.

They should steal the entire McDonalds menu and call it McVladimir's or Mickey V's for slang.

a reply to: iwanttobelieve70

In some small way that is one likely impact. It is hard to say the outcome but as I said in the OP this is a region pretty rife with piracy already. One of my jobs over the years has been cyber security. I have moved on to other tech sectors but it remains something of an interest of mine since I still get some small income from IP I sold years ago in that market sector. I think it is more of a "we thumb our noses at you kind of effort on the Russian government's part".

a reply to: Jamie2018

I thought of this yesterday too. I was wondering if KFC left a recipe or two around.

Let's face it. They have cows and chickens. They have the buildings and warehouses, use it to there advantage. Might be better anyway.

originally posted by: JIMC5499

I'm pretty sure that England and Spain were at war at the time. So it wasn't piracy.

A pirate elevated to national hero

Francis Drake made his name as a pirate by pillaging Spanish ports in the Caribbean when England and the Spanish Empire were not even officially at war.

"Un pirata elevado a héroe nacional

Francis Drake consiguió su fama como pirata saqueando los puertos españoles en el Caribe cuando Inglaterra y el Imperio español ni siquiera estaban oficialmente en guerra." - www.abc.es...

IF our leaders were smart, they would have put propaganda in the entertainment opportunities offered to Russians and let Putin deal himself with having to ban things and see his own people get mad at him for it.

IF they were smart.

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a reply to: machineintelligence

No surprise coming from a country that has state sponsered doping of their Olympic athletes.

a reply to: machineintelligence

A Big Mac Putin and a large vodka to go please, Comrade.

Second thought.


Since Russia is asking China for financial aid, and China actually being a mass producer of Pirated Movies, TV, Games and plenty of other knockoffs.

What if Russia is doing it to appease or as a request of China?

Now , that's strange .
Most are in the Ukraine .

a reply to: machineintelligence

Most pirated stuff comes from China followed by Russia who is pretty much on par with the US of A in terms of statistics
www.statista.com...
I wonder if it’s related to population or income

a reply to: machineintelligence

I honestly can not really see this causing as much harm as the corporations will obviously make out and despite there obvious and loud cry's against it though they will go after those watching and downloading in the west even if they can not touch the Russian pirates if for no other reason than there are plenty of very bored copyright lawyers that are itching to prove they are doing there job's and ensure there regular income from these publishing houses and movie studios.

Here is why.

The Internet was NOT always monetized and filled with advertisements.

Data was always shared across it including games and back then if you really liked a game you played either via the free first level which was the way that the creators of Doom dealt with piracy back then you then went and bought the full game.

Then there is the obvious terror this will strike into many gamers, already most cracked games and software are also full of malware and that means that the same pirates copying the games and cracking them are often doing so for other reasons such as installing exploit's and back door hacking on all those lovely gamers machines that the less scrupulous downloaders will have and that included malware designed to mine crypto and feed it back to these same pirates.


But on the other side of the coin there are genuine customers that get sick of Steam, Origin, Epic and Uplay and indeed many other such virtual stores that all want to be installed on there systems taking up room in there tray and idling in the background so many of them even if they bought the game often later download cracked versions just so they can play them without all that crap on there systems.


I can not condone it but am of mixed mind about damning it as in my book the publishers are the bigger pirates but at least they don't (As far as we know) install out and out malware such as most of these cracked games may do, don't believe me go and download a few into virtual machines then run an up to date anti malware and anti virus on them, about half the time or more it will find something very dodgy included in the cracked game files.

So I buy mine, wait for them to go on sale on steam for example at the moment Assassin's creed Origins is going for just £9.99 on steam and yes it want's to install the epic launcher but no biggie I have four launchers currently running on my system, Origin for some star wars game I never play but can't bring myself to uninstall, steam, epic (they often give away free stuff and it's not all bad) and Uplay Ubisoft's version of a launcher and online store portal app.

Now here is a point, some gamers regard these launchers as malware or worse and hate them with a passion, like I say the ethical buy there games but then use the loophole that say's they can back up there software in many nations law's and download the cracked version as well (But most of them are sensible enough to have good protection on there systems).

As for the movies, well some regions are blocked even in the free world and just can not see those show's they want to see desperately so there will always be a back door market for watching those, the danger there is once again malware, hacking and virus as well as dangerous redirects.

Anyone from the days of the old 8 bit computers and there Phillips cassette tape programs will remember Splitters, tape to tape hifi's and how that never stopped the game developers from becoming rich so piracy has been around for since someone first tried to copyright a piece of code and is not going away any time soon.