The fastest growing pirate sites to watch free movies and TV shows are no longer sharing services, without the so-called streaming services. Where the film is not loaded into the computer of the person viewing without “streamed”, that played directly, much like a television broadcast.
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content is the same as on file sharing sites – one of the most popular series right now is the last season of Game of Thrones. In film and television industry is growing outrage over the phenomenon.
Daniel Westman, The Institute for Legal Informatics at Stockholm University, points to increased bandwidth and streaming service simplicity, but also sees the phenomenon as a reaction to the verdicts reached against file sharers.
– Users flees to positions where there is less risk of getting caught. The general impression is that the piracy streaming has increased based in countries where it is difficult to get to them, he says.
picture is confirmed by research firm Media Vision, which sees a long-term movement from downloading to both legal and illegal streaming services.
The largest of the new Swedish pirate streaming sites are Swefilmer.com.
Google’s trend list of searches that increased the most in 2012 ports Swefilmer as high as number three overall in Sweden (the legal equivalent of Netflix came on the scene two). According to the Alexa ranking, which roughly measures the webbsajters popularity, Swefilmer increased range greatly in the last six months. On Facebook, the site has over 70,000 Likes.
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There are no exact measurements, , but the indications are clear: Swefilmer has quickly become a leading large players in the Swedish pirate film market.
SvD’s after increases shows that Swefilmers IP address leads to the hosting Redstation in London. But to find out who it is that rents server space where decisions are required by the British judicial system. However, only the site’s framework, which is based in London, the servers that movies are played back from there in Russia.
Swefilmer Domain Name can be traced to anonymiseringstjänsten Privacy Protect in Australia. But they do not give out any information about who owns it unless justice requires it.
In other words, the people behind the site endeavored hard to be anonymous. Despite the international spread is the Swedish clutches obvious: American films are subtitled Swedish and here is a large selection of Swedish films.
Swefilmer make money by selling advertising space to include poker sites and offer “VIP membership” to see some movies.
Those who run pirate streaming services are guilty of infringement or abetting copyright infringement. Watching a movie on such sites is, however, not illegal, even if the legal situation is not entirely obvious. A temporary copy of the film is created on the computer even when streaming, but the Swedish interpretation is that it is not illegal.
– Since one can have moral qualms, it is obviously a service that someone makes money. Why should one pay for a pirate, then it is better to pay the rights holders, said Daniel Westman.
This summer European Court of Justice to determine whether it is illegal to watch streaming movie if the source is illegal or not. At least up until the film industry’s antipiratorganisation Rights Alliance not to try to track those who are watching streaming movies from pirate sites. But whatever the Court concludes are technically difficult to detect.
While The Pirate Bays servers was in Sweden at the time of the police raid on the file-sharing site in 2006, required international cooperation to access Swefilmer.
Rights Alliance would not comment on whether they are planning any action against the site.
– We can not exclude that we will act against such services. For rights holders, the damage of the intrusion as great no matter what technology is used, says Sara Lindebäck, a lawyer at Legal Alliance.
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