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That's copyright infringement. They do not have the rights to distribute the movies.
by charcircuit 4mo ago
That's copyright infringement. They do not have the rights to distribute the movies.
- someonebaggy 4mo ago[dead]
- skeptic_ai 4mo agoBut you can actually purchase them at 100% discount. And you can own as long as you want. Seems a much better deal.
- haakon 4mo agoYou're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.
- infinite_spin 4mo ago[dead]
- charcircuit 4mo agoIt is the best way to support artists and the industry.
- rustcleaner 4mo agoI'm not going to click "purchase," I'm just not going to. Sorry... not sorry! :^)
- AndroTux 4mo agoNeither does Sony (anymore), apparently. They still sold them.
- Natfan 4mo agoand redefined the terms of "sold" in their contract to mean "rent, with a one-time fee" it is more immoral to sell something you can't legally "sell" (permanently and irrevocably transfer ownership of a product), than to pirate that content (which has no level of expected payment)
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- charcircuit 4mo agoSony sold them while they still had the license with a clause that they could remove them at any time.
- ninalanyon 4mo ago> with a clause that they could remove them at any time. Then they did not sell them.
- dtech 4mo agoThat's not selling, that's renting
- Buttons840 4mo agoYep. That's the argument. People don't like that though. We should change the laws so that is illegal. We can just make laws we want--we're allowed to do that.
- infinite_spin 4mo agothey don't host or distribute movies, they distribute torrents/magnets.. the speakeasy might be illegal, but telling people where to find one is not.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoLet me just say, I fuckin love piracy, but it's more like a speakeasy that piped booze in from everyone's house into the bar instead of just keeping the bottles above the bar. Booze all the same though
- infinite_spin 4mo agoI dislike the term "pirate" when used to describe unauthorized reproductions of a work. I prefer neutral terms like "archivist". Calling someone a pirate reduces the conversation to pejorative labeling, i.e. a dysphemism. When we turn a blind eye to that, or worse we embrace it, we lose the opportunity to have a balanced/adult discussion about what is and should be legal.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoWhy do you think we all go there