In 2015, chasing illegal downloaders backfired—Netflix and VPN were the winners

Monday, December 28, 2015 - 09:25 in Mathematics & Economics

For Voltage Pictures, producers of the movie Dallas Buyers Club, extracting substantial fines from a large number of Australians who downloaded their movie illegally should have been relatively straightforward. They had used the model in other countries successfully and Australia had politicians and a legal framework that supported the protection of intellectual property.

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