When a movie is released exclusively in cinema halls, some videotape it in low quality through cameras inside the theater, though the video quality is poor and uploading them on their websites illegally.
How does piracy work
These pirated sites are usually run by group of enthusiasts who do not know another person individually and operate the sites from other countries. As you know piracy is illegal in most of the countries and it increases the chance of you being arrested. Romi Hoshino from Japan who was arrested for illegal manga distribution on his site "Mangamura" also generating monetary profit. The District Court held him guilty for 3 years imprisonment with 72 million yen as fine.
Why not BAN them?
Most of the pirate sites are banned. For example, in India to ban these sites with all legal proceedings it takes nearly one month to permanently shut them. This much time is more than sufficient for website owners to change their website and domain name. As most of sites operate from other countries and it is not easy to take action against them.
Film Piracy
The first is movies with poor video quality shot in cinema halls. The second is HD prints. Movies/Web Series which are exclusively released on OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney Hotstar, SonyLIV etc. are the best occasions for the site holders to download the HD print.
How do illegal streaming sites make money
As you open any pirated site you will face many ads everywhere in their shitty interface. Pop-up from nowhere will come on your screen. Most of the companies give money to google to display their ads but as you know the sites are illegal, google will not provide any ad. You will not see any betting apps on google play store, as they banned in many states of India, google also discourages them. These apps will contact the website holders to promote their any kind of product or app or website by giving them money.
Piracy is not just related to downloading and watching movies/web series illegally. There are many Cracked Software, Applications, Games, Songs, Books you can download. Keep in mind while downloading any of these you are compromising your device security opening it for more threats and viruses.
Students forms the greatest majority to pirate things. Not only students many people can't afford to purchase subscriptions of these OTT platforms leaving them no choice but to pirate things illegally. In this case not only money is the major problem. There are many others factors which leads to piracy:
We get bored very fast. Especially students, they want new, fresh content every day. They don't value their time, 24 hour in front of their mobile screens, binge watching an entire web series in a whole day and the OTT platforms takes a huge advantage from this but not everything goes according to their will, which brings us to our next point....
Availability of Content. At present OTT platforms are spreading in a huge number promoting their subscriptions. Different media is available on different platforms but the problem arises in consumption. No one is ready to empty their pockets on purchasing subscriptions of every single OTT platform which results in a major downfall for these companies and piracy becomes the best option for media consumption.
Different Types of Internet Piracy
Soft lifting is borrowing and installing the copy of a software, which we normally do.
Client-Server Overuse, is the procedure of installing more software than you actually are licensed for.
Hard disk Loading is the procedure of installing and loading different copies of the software on refurbished or new computers.
Counterfeiting is the procedure of duplicating and selling Copyrighted Programs.
Online Piracy is typically downloading illegal software from peer-to-peer network, Internet auction or blog.
How to stop Piracy of Movies
Piracy is a matter of big concern which has taken over the whole internet. The consumption of media has also been increased especially web shows. Everyone wants exclusive content which worth their time. The interest of people has been shifted from cinemas to OTT platforms. There are numerous advantages of online platforms over cinemas but only one advantage is enough for cinemas companies is "experience". How hard online platforms may even try but there are still no of people who want to go to cinema once in a month with their family.
Piracy cannot be uprooted in a month. It has spread all over the internet. But then what's the only option against piracy? How to stop online piracy ?
The cheaper they get the more traffic they get. Even after this one big question still remains is the availability of content which has been widespread among different platforms. Well it is not an easy task to fully comprehend piracy after all it is all a money making game we all are a part of!
