I have not noticed any difference in total international traffic at the ISP which I run between now and before the new law came into force. I do notice more VPN and seedbox traffic on residential connections and less UDP torrent traffic.
I am also yet to see a copyright infringement notice properly formatted with the requirements of the new legislation. I have bot even received an automated form letter from a rights owner, as used to be the case on a regular basis.
No rightsowner, or agent thereof has been in contact, nor RIANZ or NZFACT to discuss the relationship between the rightsowners and the designated IPAPs.
The movie grossed $103 million at the US box office
Assuming a movie ticket price of $20, this means that 5.3 million people saw the movie in theatres. These guys are suing 23222 people, or about 230 times fewer
At $150K per defendant, the potential works out to $3.48billion or roughly 33 times the US gross (and $700million more than the highest grossing movie ever - Avatar
My business pitch to the movie studios would be: "Straight to torrent then litigate - that's where the money is..."
Sorry, I was lazy and posted before looking up or citing the source
The point is that when the social media revolution is over, the knowledge that we gained ill be limited to how to optimize large-scale Web servers and database clusters, which we kinda knew to do before the social media revolution took off
The best minds of our generation are occupied finding the best ways to leverage advertising revenue.
An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
The Atlas 5 has never been man-rated. But it could be done.
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