Yesterday, watch-movies.net went offline and hasn't been available since. I'm still trying to get an official response from the owners of the website, but I haven't heard anything directly from them yet.Was it because it promoted illegal content? Is it a server upgrade? Nothing is known for sure right now...but there have been a couple rumors circulating around the internet. Some people say that it's merely a server upgrade...others say it's gone for good.The website getting shutdown is certainly the worst case scenario, but it's also very likely. On December 23rd, 2008 watch-movies.net was sued by Paramount and Warner Bros. for copyright infringement. Although it operated for an entire month after the suit's filing...is it possible that the movie industry took it down? I'm not really that convinced because the US courts don't have the authority to shutdown the servers where watch-movies.net is hosted
Since the movie industry wasn't able to successfully try a case against the streaming movie portals on the internet, they have been forced to block sites through this new innovative way. Even though I agree that Watch-Movies.net was not 100% legal...it's very scary that websites can just get censored without any legal approval.The world of streaming media...is very new, and potentially very damaging to traditional distribution channels. That's why the movie industry is taking this aggressive approach...and even though I can't agree with this approach, I can't really blame them either. They've been backed into a corner (with the 100's of such websites) and they don't know what to do. In the internet age, when you can buy a $80 clone of these websites and have it up and running in less than a hour...it's going to be extremely hard for them to ever catch up.Needless to say, I'm going to be watching this situation very carefully, and if I get any more information (hopefully directly from the owners) I will share it will all of you.In the meantime, I guess we will have to hang on to our popcorn and wait this thing out.
Since the movie industry wasn't able to successfully try a case against the streaming movie portals on the internet, they have been forced to block sites through this new innovative way. Even though I agree that Watch-Movies.net was not 100% legal...it's very scary that websites can just get censored without any legal approval.The world of streaming media...is very new, and potentially very damaging to traditional distribution channels. That's why the movie industry is taking this aggressive approach...and even though I can't agree with this approach, I can't really blame them either. They've been backed into a corner (with the 100's of such websites) and they don't know what to do. In the internet age, when you can buy a $80 clone of these websites and have it up and running in less than a hour...it's going to be extremely hard for them to ever catch up.Needless to say, I'm going to be watching this situation very carefully, and if I get any more information (hopefully directly from the owners) I will share it will all of you.In the meantime, I guess we will have to hang on to our popcorn and wait this thing out.
Hi Farhan,
ReplyDeleteHmm. I've never used this site, but I am curious to see how it pans out.
I'm also not sure how this relates to rhetorical analysis, unless you're trying to suggest that the "aggressive" approach you mention is what you consider the rhetoric (the message) and think it's designed to produce a particular effect (discourage others from establishing such sites). If so, you would want to state so directly. Am I correct in my reading?