Pirate Site Blocking Boosts Legal Consumption, Research Finds

[ MPA Funding

Finally, it should be noted that this new India/Brazil study, like previous ones, is carried out as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA). The initiative is partly funded by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) which is the driving force behind many global site blocking efforts.

The MPA has sent unrestricted gifts to IDEA center since 2012, totaling several million dollars. In recent years, the gift amounted to $1 million annually ]

Good. The more the noobs move toward legal services the better it is for us who like pirate sites to be hard to find.

Is blocking pirate sites even really possible or are they referring to the whack-a-mole game states play?

I mean, I don’t mind paying for well crafted media. I know how much work goes into it. I used to pirate films a lot back before streaming services became mainstream, and I remember how fiercely the big cable and media companies resisted streaming video until Netflix did an end run around them. People will pay for good storytelling, if you don’t make the terms absurd or predatory- which im sure the big studios would, given the opportunity. In that sense, I think piracy serves a function as it provides an alternative should they get too greedy.