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by ChronoTwigger » Mon Mar 21, 2022 2:30 pm
In most of Europe, is not that you cannot stream DBS, you cannot stream *anything*, you need a license to do any kind of multimedia entertainment for public use.
If you own a club, you pay a royalty fee to the national agency to have the right of airing music and multimedia. At that stage, you can only air shows/radio/music that are registered and willing for in the national registry.
That's my job actually (to check if people is compliant with reproduction/copy/ownership rights).
Some country cannot have enough cash to spare for such control activity, but this don't make the activity legal.
TOEI cannot pursue every infringement, as before doing that you have to *prove* the infringement, and that alone cost a lot of time. There's no "mommy" that point the finger and tell "hey, that kid is doing illegals!", you need for someone holding the rights and authority to spot you. In a word: there's no automation in rights claiming, someone have to do something, and most of time, if you don't have a government agency that do so in your name, no one claim.
Is TOEI losing money for that streaming? Probably not. Those willing to see the show for free will find any mean to do so, and those willing to pay will do it anyway. Is TOEI *happy* of that? Surely not. And that sometime explain why the industry is reluctant to produce costly shows, knowing that they're so easy to share illegally in some country.
I learned english listening to songs. So I don't know anything about. The day you had to learn play piano by just listening .mp3, you'll understand.
