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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Things got weird when we went digital.

  1. It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a tape off the radio. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?
  2. It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a VHS tape off the TV. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I don't subscribe to the logic but I guess a part of it can be the lossless factor. Quality of pirated digital content is exactly like the original. If you tape something it usually loses quality. So people seem to care less about that kind of piracy. Which is stupid since going for lossy compressed pirated videos is allegedly not less wrong in the face of law.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Let's get crazier.

Our current favorite show is Bob's Burgers, it's a comfort show we fall asleep to. Prior to signing up with real debrid I got tagged for downloading a 2 year old episode.

We pay for Hulu. We pay for YoutubeTV. We have a working OTA antenna (for when the internet goes out).
My math says I have 3 licenses, yet still illegal to download?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The law is a sham and it doesn't deserve anyone's respect.

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