The Pirates Party of Greece has sent us a very interesting text about the capture of Gamatotv.com (and not only) Gamatotv.com's Greek 32 manager for illegal streaming of movies.
Capture 32hronian native for illegal streaming of movies
We quote the article as it is:
A website that displays video and suddenly the damage is astronomical. 2 times what the state collects in one year from the corresponding legal activities.
We have said it, one, we have said two, because it seems these strange mathematics that come from the lips of the Electronic Crime Prosecution are used to convince unrelated people to the internet and no one else.
This time, 230 has lost millions of euros in VAT receipts!
That is, 465.000.000 euros and more receipts from companies.
That is, if we also include income tax and tax prepayment, the state has suffered half a billion euros from a single website!
That is, from a single website that was supposed to have and so many views a day, those who are the inhabitants of the country!
5 such websites to close the year, we solved our financial problem as a state!!!
Watch out now. IF the owners of this website (Gamatotv.com) were making money by selling access to material with copyright, then of course they were illegal in this part. But any damage is orders of magnitude less than projected for one simple reason.
Of those who viewed Online content, it is more likely than one in a million to give money to buy or otherwise see it. Why; Because if he wanted he could pay to enjoy the product, but he did not. Simple e;
As with the interview of the responsible film distribution company that has loaded its entire turnover, equal to the decline in GDP in the last 4 years, in Piraeus, here is a practice that began with the lending of books, music cassettes and later CD, is wrongly considered to be depriving not just of the professionals in the entertainment industry but above 100% of their current turnover. Funny things.
The IEA has more serious business than to deal with the excessive demands of any industry.
The cost we pay as a state to have the junk of electronic crime to hunt down such pages, protecting the interests of multinationals, have we figured that out?
Indeed, why should they be protected by patents and copyrights, creatures that no real benefit to the society as a whole? The state must decide which creations really have a real benefit to the community, and only these creations protect their intellectual rights and their patents from state agencies paid with the taxes of the Greek citizen).
Let the MNCs take it upon themselves to modernize their operating model with multi-channel distribution, so that there is no cost to protect their creations, and not force (through legislation passed in parliament by MPs who support the lobby of these MNCs) a state one service like the Cyber Crime to function as their annex.
