567

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

145 comments fedilink hide all child comments

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 128 points 1 month ago

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago

Piracy has never been theft, it has always been and still remain copyright infringement. That being said go ahead and pirate, I'm not your dad.

[-] Lexam@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

You, you could be... If you wanted to.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 25 points 1 month ago

You just gotta show up.

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Thanks for believing in me child.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That being said go ahead and pirate, I’m not your dad

What am I letters on a screen? I'm not going to stop you.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

And piracy isn't stealing anyway!

But I still enjoy that phrase.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Well, not digital piracy. Ye olde piracy absolutely was stealing, plus a medley of other crimes

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure some digital piracy involves stealing. Someone has to have taken some floppy disk software from a store and walked out without paying for it, then made pirated copies of that disk

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Sail the seas with I2P and anonymous torrents. They can't stop it.

Anti Commercial-AI license

this post was submitted on 13 May 2024

567 points (98.6% liked)

Selfhosted

37715 readers

349 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz