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Is it piracy if it’s content you purchased in the past but access was removed? In my mind, it’s absolutely not. This is just plain double-dipping bullshit.
by xattt 3y ago
Is it piracy if it’s content you purchased in the past but access was removed? In my mind, it’s absolutely not.
This is just plain double-dipping bullshit.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoIf you bought a VHS you don't have automatic rights to a BluRay copy.
- chii 3y agoBut you do have the right to transcribe your VHS copy to bluray yourself. Format conversion is not illegal.
- wil421 3y agoFor VHS yes but breaking DRM on Blu Rays is illegal and you have to do it to copy them. However, to my knowledge no one has ever been prosecuted for breaking the DRM on a blu ray. Unless they shared the copy online.
- etrautmann 3y agoIsn’t this discussion about that’s ethical and moral, rather that what’s legal?
- drivingmenuts 3y agoMorals and ethics have no place in a court of law. Or, another way to think about it: morals and ethics cover human-to-human transactions. Legality covers human-to-corporate interactions. Because corporations are not people. They are composed of people, but the people of a corporation are fungible and to consider them differently is, to my mind, a huge error.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoSo is it unethical or immoral to copy your VHS tape you bought to a BluRay disc?
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoNo. AHRA format transfers only apply to music audio recordings. Video and audio-books aren't covered and can't be duplicated in any way without authorization. Technically even music transfers are illegal without implementing an SCMS type system to prohibit further generational copying but that has never been enforced.
- gedy 3y agoIt's the other way around dude, many of these "digital purchases" were high quality, but pirating doesn't always have this quality.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoPirating is often higher quality because you're not streaming it. Always fun to realize that your streaming service has dropped you to 720p when the network is congested.
- floor2 3y agoSays who, or why not? This seems like an obvious case of governmental corruption if the answer is "some law that 99.999% of people are harmed by, but makes a handful of hollywood billionaires richer". If the current laws are bad (and they are) we should get rid of them with more consumer friendly ones. If congress is too corrupt to pass those laws, we as citizens should nullify them by collectively refusing to enforce them, whether as jurors, prosecutors, or employees of media or telecom companies.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>Is it piracy if it’s content you purchased in the past but access was removed? In my mind, it’s absolutely not. I agree with you more than wholeheartedly :) Allow me to re-interpret your one statement in the opposite way from what you intended anyway ;) Well for someone who's not at all part of a paid-media consuming class, when they do make a copy from someone who has paid, there is no booty lost by anyone. But if you are functioning as part of a paid-media consuming class, and you paid fair & square for the material as you see fit, and then it's taken away completely, you are "absolutely" the one who has been pirated, fully plundered and lost all the booty there was to lose. No doubt about the depth of the bullshit.