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> you could very likely legally watch everything this might be true if you live in the US, but in some other countries it is still hard to actually buy movies

> you could very likely legally watch everything this might be true if you live in the US, but in some other countries it is still hard to actually buy movies or tv shows. as for the legality itself: in some countries downloading media itself for personal use is not illegal. for example in switzerland, there is a media tax/fee included in the price of every device that potentially could store pirated materials. the income from this tax is then distributed to media producers and artists. in return, copying copyrighted material is tolerated for private use and consumption... this excludes redistribution and uploading.

legulere 11y ago
> this might be true if you live in the US, but in some other countries it is still hard to actually buy movies or tv shows. I actually live in Germany, and you also can't get everything here, so this is true for me as well. Sometimes you simply have to accept that something is not available. It's not like there's not enough media out there. > in some countries downloading media itself for personal use is not illegal. But offering the download you use is still illegal. But that's all just semantics and doesn't matter that much. What I find more important is the moral issue. > for example in switzerland, there is a media tax/fee included in the price of every device that potentially could store pirated materials. the income from this tax is then distributed to media producers and artists. in return, copying copyrighted material is tolerated for private use and consumption... We have a very similar fee in Germany and it's there to allow normal copying in personal use (something that would be called fair use in the US). I guess the swiss fee is there for the same reason and is not there to allow people to get the majority of their media for no additional money. The fee most likely is not enough to finance the media producers and artists. Why spend it on hardware when you can give it to the people that produce what you enjoy?

legulere 11y ago

> this might be true if you live in the US, but in some other countries it is still hard to actually buy movies or tv shows. I actually live in Germany, and you also can't get everything here, so this is true for me as well. Sometimes you simply have to accept that something is not available. It's not like there's not enough media out there. > in some countries downloading media itself for personal use is not illegal. But offering the download you use is still illegal. But that's all just semantics and doesn't matter that much. What I find more important is the moral issue. > for example in switzerland, there is a media tax/fee included in the price of every device that potentially could store pirated materials. the income from this tax is then distributed to media producers and artists. in return, copying copyrighted material is tolerated for private use and consumption... We have a very similar fee in Germany and it's there to allow normal copying in personal use (something that would be called fair use in the US). I guess the swiss fee is there for the same reason and is not there to allow people to get the majority of their media for no additional money. The fee most likely is not enough to finance the media producers and artists. Why spend it on hardware when you can give it to the people that produce what you enjoy?