Summary: A recent UK government inquiry into the challenges faced by the film and high-end television industry has recently received submissions from major Hollywood studios advocating for KYC (know your customer) rules for hosting providers, similar to banking regulations to identify money laundering. If adopted, this would help them to identify people hosting pirated content.

The submissions are united in identifying the same solution to this problem: the UK must implement a ‘Know Your Business Customer’ regime to compel commercial entities (including online intermediaries) to establish the true identity of their business customers as a precondition for selling, and receiving payment for, digital services.

  • Sabata11792@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Why go through the trouble of pirating if you can pay for it and get a reasonable service?

    I literally don’t know any platform other than Steam that dose anything reasonable with digital content.

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      1 year ago

      I’d argue Bandcamp does Artists set the price, and the files downloaded are .flac or mp3 without any DRM.

      They got sold, which resulted in layoffs recently…so no telling how long it lasts. But right now, they’re reasonable in my book.