Batu69 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Piracy is rampant in many countries around the world, but an example that reached us from Iran recently is one of the most blatant displays we've seen recently. Iranian state TV showed a movie to its viewers that clearly originated from a pirate website, which ironically is blocked by the Iranian Government. In Iran IRIB TV3 is one of the channels operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. It’s often dubbed the youth channel as a lot of its programming attracts a younger audience, including sports events and foreign movies and TV-shows. Perhaps in line with this philosophy, the television channel broadcasted the 2013 Hong Kong film “Saving General Yang” a few days ago. Not a regular copy though, but a pirated one. Several Iranian viewers noticed that aside from the IRIB TV3 logo in the top right corner, there was another ‘watermark’ at the bottom. This read Tinymoviez.co, which is a popular site in Iran where people can download pirated copies of movies and TV-shows. This oddity was picked up in the local media, which shared screenshots of the unusual sight. Tinymoviez on Iranian national TV (credit) Ironically, the Tinymoviez website and other Persian pirate sites such as Ganool are censored by the Iranian Government because they contain nudity. However, just like many citizens, Iran’s state TV appears to have found a backdoor. IRIB TV3 is not the only channel to show pirated movies. According to the Iranian Student News Agency this is quite common as pirate watermarks also appeared elsewhere on movies such as Django Unchained, Tower Heist, and Jack the Giant Slayer. In addition, TV broadcasters often use music from popular TV-shows such as Game of Thrones and Dexter on their own footage, reportedly without authorization. Ganool.com mark on The Tower Heist broadcast (credit) But there’s more. Apparently Iranian State TV isn’t limiting its pirate broadcasts to movies and TV-shows. They also broadcasted a soccer match, recorded from Al Jazeera, which prompted FIFA to threaten them with legal action. While this blatant unauthorized use is quite a shocker in the west, in Iran it’s less of a problem. The country’s copyright law is set up to protect all copyrighted works produced by Iranians, but not necessarily those by creators from other countries. Since 2001 Iran has been a member of the WIPO, and has acceded to several WIPO treaties. However, the Iranian Government never signed the WIPO copyright treaty and other international copyright agreements that would make copying of foreign products unlawful. As a result, broadcasting unlicensed media has become quite common. While ‘piracy’ appears to be rampant in Iran, there have been similar incidents elsewhere too. A few years ago Netflix accidentally used ‘pirate’ fansubs on the Canadian-American science fiction series Andromeda, for example. Similarly, Saudi Airlines previously listed a pirated movie in its in-flight entertainment system, where passengers had the option to watch “Killers 2010 BDRiP AC3 XViD-ILOVE.” Pirates all around. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 5 hours ago, Batu69 said: Persian pirate sites such as Ganool Ganool is not a Persian site This web site is originated from Indonesia. These rubbish sites videos are not fit for a person to watch on a computer much less on TV . Low quality and site watermarks . That's how the viewers figured it out to begin with was site watermarks , they should had pick better sites to pirate from . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 10 minutes ago, steven36 said: Ganool is not a Persian site This web site is originated from Indonesia. These rubbish sites videos are not fit for a person to watch on a computer much less on TV . Low quality and site watermarks . That's how the viewers figured it out to begin with was site watermarks , they should had pick better sites to pirate from . Tinymoviez has all quality movies, nothing low quality, and TV channels are all broadcasted in digital Full-HD. not fit for a person to watch on computer?!! so you prefer to download 40GB full-bluray version of movies rather than BRrip 1080p ? then you gotta have plenty of space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 22 minutes ago, saeed_dc said: Tinymoviez has all quality movies, nothing low quality, and TV channels are all broadcasted in digital Full-HD. not fit for a person to watch on computer?!! so you prefer to download 40GB full-bluray version of movies rather than BRrip 1080p ? then you gotta have plenty of space I would never download a movie from a site uses site watermarks on there releases . The scene or p2p groups don't watermark videos. And there's plenty of sites that has smaller releases without watermarks . Its not high quality if its been defaced by some website. You may as well watch movies on broadcast TV if your going put up with watermarks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Ganool.com is dead unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 27 minutes ago, info999 said: Ganool.com is dead unfortunately No its not dead it changed domains is all when Indonesia isp ban a bunch of Indonesian pirate sites . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 2 hours ago, steven36 said: No its not dead it changed domains is all when Indonesia isp ban a bunch of Indonesian pirate sites . what is the new domain ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 52 minutes ago, info999 said: what is the new domain ? You found this website, can't you find google? Try typing in ganool and you will see http://www.ganool.co.in/ and it's alive and well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 43 minutes ago, straycat19 said: You found this website, can't you find google? Try typing in ganool and you will see http://www.ganool.co.in/ and it's alive and well. Damn, I thought it's ganool.my.id & I was wondering why it didn't have any box office rips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trufpal Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 5 minutes ago, info999 said: Damn, I thought it's ganool.my.id & I was wondering why it didn't have any box office rips No. The correct address is ganool.ag the others are just copycats. Source: I've liked their FB page since years ago and ganool.ag is written there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info999 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 3 minutes ago, trufpal said: No. The correct address is ganool.ag the others are just copycats. Source: I've liked their FB page since years ago and ganool.ag is written there. yeah ganool.co.in & ganool.ag are definitely "ganool.com" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trufpal Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Just now, info999 said: yeah ganool.co.in & ganool.ag are definitely the "children" websites of ganool.com https://www.facebook.com/GanoolDotCom Check out their FB page. To make sure i wasn't lying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamedjoon Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 In an interesting aside, viewers of any of these movies, pirated or not, are becoming the victims of "Cultural Imperialism" but do NOT ever know this fact... Until it's too late... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 i don't see the problem. if they have a license to play it on national tv, it doesn't matter where they download the movie from. maybe their copy was corrupted or lost in a damaged hdd and the original channel won't give out backups. (they will not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 2 hours ago, humble3d said: In an interesting aside, viewers of any of these movies, pirated or not, are becoming the victims of "Cultural Imperialism" but do NOT ever know this fact... Until it's too late... Quote Cultural imperialism is the cultural aspects of imperialism.Imperialism, here, is referring to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations favoring the more powerful civilization. Guess which one has had the more powerful civilization Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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