You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

@RealFknNito@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
40
edit-2
9M

I just do the morally correct thing. Buy it, then pirate it so I really do own it forever. Inconvenient from a data storage perspective but the only simple solution I have on hand.

@Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
link
fedilink
English
2
edit-2
9M

It’s amazon. They pay actors and writers pennies and funding Amazon is itself completely immoral by any means. Even after the “fix” of the recent agreement.

Don’t get me wrong. I do it because Prime has shit I can’t get elsewhere. So I have to on some levels. But I don’t unless I have to to get what I need to do what I do.

Doesn’t matter. We’re all gonna die in that decade we’re now well into my original prediction of. Baking the planet, inventing viruses bro-/tech-/etc.-, Closed Source AI, etc. etc.

2030: We’re all gonna die.

@selokichtli@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
English
179M

Wouldn’t call that piracy.

100%. That’s a backup.

@DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one
link
fedilink
English
199M

Or don’t buy it, then pirate it.

Depends on what it is. I’ll freeboot full priced games by well known companies that I don’t want to support but smaller games from studios trying their heart out? I’m a sucker for chucking money at them.

Album
link
fedilink
English
19M

Or don’t buy it and don’t pirate it either. Fuck em. This shit isn’t even worth pirating.

Sometimes I do what I call “time travelling” where I pirate first with the intention to buy later when it’s cheaper.

@RealFknNito@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
10
edit-2
9M

I do that too but I call it a “forced demo”

Flying Squid
link
fedilink
English
-59M

I don’t agree that it is ‘morally correct’ to pay $20 for a shitty movie that cost over $100 million to make when that money could have gone to fund 5 much smaller, much better movies just so the studio could shovel money into their Scrooge McDuck moneybin with yet another multimedia tie-in.

@Zibitee@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
79M

Mmm… Sure. I think it’s morally correct for yourself. But the copyright people? They’ll argue all day that you shouldn’t be allowed to pirate it even after ownership. You need to buy the same movie on, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, purple-ray, AND omni-ray when it comes out. After all, there’s money to be made.

Format shifting is legal in the U.S.

It’s distribution that’s an issue.

@7u5k3n@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
29M

Won’t someone think of the shareholders!

deleted by creator

@ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
link
fedilink
English
79M

I don’t know about the laws where you live. But here it is legal to make ‘security copies’ of any medium you bought. If you have to crack some kind of protection, that is an inconvenience.

You are just not allowed to distribute any copies without the proper license.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Create a post
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don’t request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don’t request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don’t submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

  • 1 user online
  • 109 users / day
  • 273 users / week
  • 1K users / month
  • 3.5K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 3.39K Posts
  • 82.1K Comments
  • Modlog