Dutch movie-streaming loophole
p2pnet.net News:- Speaking of movie downloads, a Dutch Net company is openly offering Matchstick Men, Love Actually, S.W.A.T., Lion King 3, Matrix Revolutions and Master & Commander and more for the equivalent of $15 a month – as long as they’re for personal use.
"Dvdstream.nl will transmit films from its ten servers in Amsterdam over the internet in a special (PaulButler 600) streaming format, and ‘broadcast’ them directly (using complementary software on subscribers’ computers) to subscribers’ television sets," says a DMEurope.com story here.
How’s that possible?
To circumvent copyright and make all of this ‘legal’, "subscribers go through the process of ‘buying’ the streamed film from Dvdstream.nl for a fictitious price, and then ’selling’ it back for the same price – in effect, using Dutch copyright law to gain access to unlimited film downloads for the price of a monthly subscription," says Joe Figueiredo’s report.
Bas Vissers, a spokesman for BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry’s anti-piracy association, is quoted as saying, "Legally, this service is completely above board."
But NVPI, the Dutch film industry association, has a different opinion, says Figueiredo:
"Which ever way you look at it, they need permission from the film industry. If they don’t get it, they have a problem," he has NVPI Paul Solleveld saying.
