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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the point of storing something you know you will never use then? At this point can just throw out the disk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Because then I cannot legally prove that I haven't given it away or sold it. In order to have any hope of a legitimate legal defense, I need to have a copy to prove that it's actually a backup. And no, buying (or borrowing) something, ripping it, and then returning it doesn't count as a "backup," that's illegal duplication.