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 rises to astronomical levels. 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 site (Gamatotv.com) earned money by selling access to copyrighted material, then of course they misinterpreted this piece. But any damage is less than the order of magnitude projected for a 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?
Really, why protect with patents and copyrights, creations that offer no real benefit to society as a whole? The state should decide which creations have a real benefit to society as a whole, and only these creations should protect their copyrights and patents from state services 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 such as the prosecution of electronic crime to function as an annex to them.
