Men Arrested For Transcribing Godzilla Minus One, Posting Details to a Website.

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Men Arrested For Transcribing Godzilla Minus One, Posting Details to a Website * TorrentFreak
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“The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

This argument is not very convincing, and I highly doubt there's any evidence to support it.

It’s alleged that without obtaining permission from rightsholders, the men – who appear to work for the same company – ‘extracted’ the text and other distinuishing features from the movies, added relevant images, then displayed the resulting articles on a website.

“As a result of the police investigation, it was discovered that the company’s management and employees had conspired to systematically commit copyright infringement, and had operated the website for profit, attracting a large number of hits.”

The dummies should've used an AI to extract the text, that way there woulda been no culprit.

It’s alleged that without obtaining permission from rightsholders, the men – who appear to work for the same company – ‘extracted’ the text and other distinuishing features from the movies, added relevant images, then displayed the resulting articles on a website.

So... A makeshift script? Isn't that like copying song lyrics? Its the idea, not the expression?