The Pirate Party Greeces sent us a very interesting text concerning the arrest of a 32-year-old Greek administrator of Gamatotv.com (and more) for illegal movie streaming.
Capture 32hronian native for illegal streaming of movies
We quote the article as it is:
A website that displays videos and suddenly the damage rises to astronomical levels. 2 times what the state collects in one year from the corresponding legal activities.
We've said it, once, we've said it two, apparently this strange math that even comes from the lips of the Cybercrime Prosecution is used to convince people unrelated 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 time, 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 manager of a film distribution company who blamed the entire drop in her turnover, equal to the drop in GDP over the last 4 years, on Piracy, here too a practice that started from the lending of books, tapes musics and later CDs, is wrongly considered to be depriving entertainment professionals of not just something, but over 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 multi-national companies undertake to modernize their multi-channel operation model so that there is no cost to protect their creations and not to force (through legislation voted in parliament by MPs supporting the lobby of these multinationals) a state agency such as the prosecution of an electronic crime to act as an annex to them.
