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How come back in the day a person could download or pirate books till their hearts content, but one movie and your ISP would give you a DMCA notice? Why no DMCA with the books?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Patnou@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is no MPAA or RIAA for books

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    • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is the reason. Book publishers don’t have the resources to go after pirates the way Hollywood and the music industry do.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Detection - books are far smaller in size

    Lawyer cost - the ISP only does it when they get a notice, which is costing someone money. Studios have far more money to work wi... oh, wait, that's right, studios are going bankrupt from the piracy, so I guess the lawyers for them are pro bono.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because the film industry got its shit together quicker. Almost as quick as the RIAA.

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  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Okay tin foil hat time.

    Because controlling popular media is an important part of US governance / military recruitment strategy, and they invest a lot of money and effort in getting people to watch the right things at the right time

    Only sorta serious, but I really do believe it may be a factor and probably applies to other countries

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    • LostListener@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      https://youtu.be/vlxGtKw2KAA

      These days we sure do get a lot of hunger games knockoffs

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have gotten an ISP copyright letter for a book torrent before I was using VPN for torrenting, it happens. Not DMCA though.

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