http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14911577-taking-steps-to-fight-piracy-in-online-video Are you watching Pirates of the Caribbean legally -- or is it a pirated version? Are you sure? By some estimates, a quarter of today’s internet traffic is copyright-infringed media and intellectual properties being used and consumed illegally. If you’re reading this site, you’re probably more likely to not only know exactly where your copy of a movie came from, but you’re also confident that it’s not a pirated version. Some consumers, on the other hand, may not realize that the movies they’re streaming or downloading are stolen goods or that the host sites where they obtained them are illegal operations. In many other cases, of course, people know full well that the way they acquired certain music or movies wasn’t legal. And then you have people who share files they’ve acquired -- both legally and illegally -- with their friends. Since file sharing doesn’t sound like a crime, and they’re not immediately apprehended or handcuffed like criminals, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. And anyway, everyone’s doing it. There are roughly 150 million active users using BitTorrent, the world’s premier protocol for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over the public internet. While BitTorrent users aren’t necessarily dealing in copyright-infringed content, this is a platform that lets them do it for free. With broadband service, people can access big movie files and even stream them online courtesy of pirate sites. One infamous rogue site was megaupload.com, a Hong Kong-based online service that facilitated illegal file sharing and viewing of movies, TV shows, and other media. When the FBI took the site down in January 2012, it seized $42 million worth of assets from the owner and prevented further access by the site’s 180 million registered users. There are huge profits in content piracy, with pirate sites and services pocketing revenues from advertising, pay-per-view fees, and subscriptions. Since pirate sites don’t pay to produce the content, they can charge less for it compared to the same content distributed via rightful channels -- or they can charge nothing for it at all but generate revenue by selling ads on their sites. Lamenting they can’t compete with free content, movie studios and record labels stress that content piracy threatens profits, jobs, creativity, and brand sanctity. When asked to put a dollar value on losses from content piracy, industry experts say it’s difficult to do for many reasons. Not every illegal download or stream is a lost sale. New pirates are marauding internet waters every day, and piracy is a rampant problem impacting every aspect of today’s legitimate creative industries. read full article here: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Taking-Steps-to-Fight-Piracy-in-Online-Video-90584.aspx

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2. Are you watching Pirates of the Caribbean legally -- or is it a pirated version?
Are you sure? By some estimates, a quarter of today’s internet traffic is
copyright-infringed media and intellectual properties being used and
consumed illegally.
If you’re reading this site, you’re probably more likely to not only know
exactly where your copy of a movie came from, but you’re also confident that
it’s not a pirated version. Some consumers, on the other hand, may not realize
that the movies they’re streaming or downloading are stolen goods or that the
host sites where they obtained them are illegal operations. In many other
cases, of course, people know full well that the way they acquired certain
music or movies wasn’t legal. And then you have people who share files
they’ve acquired -- both legally and illegally -- with their friends. Since file
sharing doesn’t sound like a crime, and they’re not immediately apprehended
or handcuffed like criminals, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. And anyway,
everyone’s doing it.
There are roughly 150 million active users using Bit Torrent, the world’s
premier protocol for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over the public internet.
While Bit Torrent users aren’t necessarily dealing in copyright-infringed
content, this is a platform that lets them do it for free.

3. With broadband service, people can access big movie files and even stream
them online courtesy of pirate sites. One infamous rogue site was
megaupload.com, a Hong Kong-based online service that facilitated illegal
file sharing and viewing of movies, TV shows, and other media. When the FBI
took the site down in January 2012, it seized $42 million worth of assets from
the owner and prevented further access by the site’s 180 million registered
users.
There are huge profits in content piracy, with pirate sites and services
pocketing revenues from advertising, pay-per-view fees, and subscriptions.
Since pirate sites don’t pay to produce the content, they can charge less for it
compared to the same content distributed via rightful channels -- or they can
charge nothing for it at all but generate revenue by selling ads on their sites.
Lamenting they can’t compete with free content, movie studios and record
labels stress that content piracy threatens profits, jobs, creativity, and brand
sanctity.
When asked to put a dollar value on losses from content piracy, industry
experts say it’s difficult to do for many reasons. Not every illegal download or
stream is a lost sale. New pirates are marauding internet waters every day,
and piracy is a rampant problem impacting every aspect of today’s legitimate
creative industries.