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Copyright protections are really getting out of hand, and they are ridiculous: Nothing to do with this example but today I decided to watch a documentary on my
by can16358p 5y ago
Copyright protections are really getting out of hand, and they are ridiculous:
Nothing to do with this example but today I decided to watch a documentary on my iPhone on Netflix app, which I rarely use on mobile. I liked a scene, took a screenshot to send to someone who might be genuinely interested in watching the documentary (which would even mean potential new customers for Netflix). The screenshot was blank. Then googled it to find it's on DRM grounds.
It takes one person to pirate and distribute a movie online to anywhere on Earth, yet these attempts block normal users from perfectly fair use.
Anyone who is going to pirate things will find a way anyway. Just like the Google example: the whole piracy detection system harms all the perfectly legal, fair use users while pirates have tons of other ways of distributing files anyway.
I wonder when this will end and copyright holders will understand that they're approaching this the wrong way.