pinkincide wrote:gapelover wrote: unless you reedit and change pixels and remove the subsonic barcode- no to mention each dvd and download has recorded your IP- and all companies will file complaints and block your ASS of the internet for life- imagine you will have to move to another country to get internet LOL
I'm saddened to see Sineplex engaging in this level of fantasy

. Really, I've been a Sin fan from their early days, and I've probably dropped over $200 on their DVDs. I want to see them succeed and keep making the best porn. But not only will people "reedit and change pixels and remove the subsonic barcode", but they will probably write custom Virtualdub filters just for that purpose. And you wouldn't even have to "remove or reedit" anything, just obscure them to the point they can't be identified, which is far easier.
And the idea of Sineplex getting people banned from the internet is...well, it's just adorable. Kind of like kids say they're going to run their own circus with real elephants and tigers. I'm not thrilled about this wide-eyed innocence coming from my favorite porn company, though.
Sorry Gapelover, I have to agree with Pinkincide. It's ill-informed and somewhat naive to think that people are going to get banned from using the internet for sharing the odd Porn DVD. I can tell you this as a Lawyer who also has friends in the Police.
Firstly, Copyright Infringement is not a criminal offence (unless you're making a profit from it) and the corollary is that it's not an absolutely massive priority for ISPs to combat.
Secondly, IP Addresses are also notoriously poor forms of evidence and in most cases are simply not sufficient. What about if someone has hacked into an unprotected wireless connection? Furthermore, you would need an exact time/date as most people have dynamic IP Addresses that change all the time particularly if a router is reset. There would have to be further corroborative evidence before this would be taken seriously.
But the above really begs the question: do you really think that an ISP like BT would give a FLYING FUCK about whether one of their customers had infringed the Copyright of a small, relatively unknown porn company from Russia? Trust me, they're not going to. They might send a letter to the Copyright Infringer but they're certainly not going to ban people unless they have absolutely no choice in the matter – after all, it's the customers that collectively keep them in business.
Moreover, Sineplex is a porn company and I think it's quite obvious what the vast majority of people particularly in positions of power/responsibility think of the porn industry. Unfortunate but true. No one is going to go out on a limb for them. It's that simple.
You also have to understand that there are thousands of people every day committing crimes far worse than Copyright infringement of a little known porn film. For example, it's estimated that there are tens of thousands of people uploading/downloading child abuse images/videos every day and yet the % caught is miniscule.
The above is not intended as a slight on Sineplex but there are more important matters for ISPs to deal with.
Finally, I have said this many times before but anti-circumvention technology is always doomed to failure. You can be sure that this protection will be cracked within a month. If big games studios (EA etc) with turnovers a thousand times more than Sineplex cannot do this, I doubt Sineplex are any different in this respect.