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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

submitted 11 months ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] Froyn@kbin.social 139 points 11 months ago

Things got weird when we went digital.

It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a tape off the radio. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?
It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a VHS tape off the TV. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago

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?