Why people Pirate?
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- 1 hour
I know it doesn’t fit the Piracy narrative, but there’s actually more to this story. I’ve never actually heard this story, but at some point, Google gave everyone that same movie (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) for free. Anybody who saw the deal could claim it. I still have it. I’d gift it to this guy if I could, because I’ve since bought the extended edition trilogy in 4K. The Fellowship copy is locked to 1080p, and it’s the theatrical version. I have no reason to ever watch it. But I still have it.
So I don’t know what happened with them losing the rights, but they did kinda try to make it right by offering a giveaway. It would have been awfully nice of them to email everyone who lost their original copy and tell them they could claim it, though. That rarely happens with giveaways. They had a few of them back then. I also got Happy Feet and Big, maybe one or two others.
Make no mistake though. While I do have quite a nice collection of 4K movies in Apple TV (call them rentals if you want, but I won’t pay more than $5 for them, so rental is fair since I paid rental price), I have easily 10-15 times as many on my Plex server (not all 4K though, but still).
- 1 hour
Here is the original story: https://www.techradar.com/streaming/youll-own-nothing-and-youll-like-it-google-pulls-the-lord-of-the-rings-digital-editions-from-one-users-library-our-latest-reminder-that-digital-purchases-arent-always-forever
It seems they paid for it and were not given a refund or replacement.
- 2 hours
They don’t claim that after the fact, it’s their terms of service to begin with. Just another reason to never buy anything on these services. Even paying for streaming is less of a scam since at least you aren’t being misled.
(I can feel my huge steam library giving my hypocritical ass mad side-eye right now)
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish38 minutes
As Mr Krabs would say, “it’s not stealing, it’s borrowing. You can borrow anything you’d like as long as you give it back”
So I’ll just “give back” all my copies I have obtained, before I die!
- 19 minutes
Why not after? You put this in your testament: “I hereby give my movies back to google. Fuck google!”
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish21 minutes
It’s never been stealing, it’s infringement of copyright, which aught to carry much less of a penalty since the original owner was not deprived of their property.
But we live in hell, so capitalism literally bankrupts families when they film their kid dancing to music that was playing on a public broadcast on FM radio.
- 3 hours
They call it stealing because the real legal term is unlawful copying or reproducing without copyright permits, and that sounds closer to a misdemeanor.
If we claim someone has stolen thousands of songs causing millions of dolars in damages it does look like a felony, and that is the way they’ve chosen to scare us.
- 2 hours
because the movie was bought
Since they admit the person bought the movie, they are also admitting they stole it from him
- 3 hours
Piracy isn’t stealing.
The “If buying isn’t owning” part makes a catchy slogan but it really isn’t necessary.
- 3 hours
How to recruit new pirates to the cause. Thank you goofge.
- username_1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish4 hours
Because life in Somalia is harsh and there is no much else to do.
