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I think the problem in Denmark is re-buying things: You bought Harry Potter on VHS, now again on DVD, again on BlueRay, again through Blockbuster, and again thr
by madsbuch 3y ago
I think the problem in Denmark is re-buying things: You bought Harry Potter on VHS, now again on DVD, again on BlueRay, again through Blockbuster, and again through YouTube. In the end that is one expensive movie!
In the end it is less unfair to just download the movie you already paid for.
- Aachen 3y agoIt's unfair to need another license. Distribution costs are a thing also via the Internet, so while they're close to zero per movie it still makes sense to have to pay. However, there is no mechanism to prove you have a license, so in that sense I see your point
- madsbuch 3y agoyou can argue that the distribution costs are negligible. after all the entire post is about piracy where no one is being paid for distributing the files.
- ilyt 3y agoThe distribution costs are entirely irrelevant to the problem, unless you're abusing the service. Cost for single download of a movie now is going to be in fraction of a penny level of cost probably.
- Aachen 3y agoLet's talk again when eight billion people are doing license validation and movie downloads from your server!
- madsbuch 3y agoWhat about making a distributed system for distribution so the costs of the license validation doesn't fall on a single entity. Then again, we might already have that. I vaguely remember talk about the fact that it is legal in Denmark to fetch a copy of movies and software you already bought.
- jacknews 3y agoA very good point. In a sense, the industry has been stealing from customers all along by selling the same 'rights' over and over, just in different formats.