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> In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that cha
by znpy 6y ago
> In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that chain anywhere else
well, supposedly a chain will sell the same dishes everywhere.
If you don't like the menu of a certain chain, what's the point in trying at another location?
It's gonna be the same menu.
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Coming back to the article: my advice would be to download that illegally. If in order to use your legally purchased content you have to go through illegal means (and become a pirate anyway) you might as well save those seven euros.
Obligatory XKCD: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/steal_this_comic.png https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/steal_this_comic.png
- TomMarius 6y agoI am pretty sure that if you bought it beforehand, it would change the "ruling" on your piracy. At least in Europe, I am not sure about USA.
- znpy 6y agoNot sure about the Europe, but at least in the US the DMCA makes illegal to bypass/circumvent drm technologies.
- cortesoft 6y agoNah, because the crime is usually sharing the copy, not downloading (i.e. the upload part of the torrent is the illegal part)
- TomMarius 6y agoTorrent is probably illegal, yeah. Regular downlpad might be legal-ish (protected by court) based on the intent - to simply read a book like a book, without unrealistic expectations.