Arrrrr me hearties

Avery Emberly

Updated Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 4:18 PM CDT

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perlsucks

You don't *own* someone's services. You can steal services (don't pay someone to mow your lawn). So you can steal something that isn't owned. That crime, by the way, is called "theft of services"

F**cTedCruz

I'm pretty sure that was a supreme court ruling. They did determine that downloading the context onto your computer is illegal because you own it. However, streaming something that never downloads to ur computer would not fall into that definition.

AskThisGuy

That is an oversimplification. What about the entire rental system? I pay for a rental car but don't own it.

flarflarf

its a fact. piracy has never been theft, piracy is a copyright issue. people charged with piracy are charged in civil and not criminal courts.

ILoveCatsTheyAreFluffyAndTheyMeow

I still have the first digital music album I ever purchased; I can't listen to it anymore because it was in DRM-protected .wma format and whatever server that was telling Windows Media Player that it was okay to play it went offline a long time ago. Thank goodness for piracy.

Secradon

hoist the colors me hearties time to teach hollywood some manners. so they pay their employees.

PiercedViking

I think this is more talking about how services like Amazon Video or Steam make it so that they have the right to remove access to media that you "purchased". If I buy a movie on Amazon and at some point they stop hosting that movie and remove my access to it, then that means that I must not have "purchased" it.

stimpackaddict13

As an academic librarian, vendor and subscription management is half my job. I wholeheartedly agree with this.

TicklishOwl

"Piracy is mo***** ok?" 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

StillNotYouTube

It's not stealing and no intelligent person has ever called it stealing. If anything, it's copyright infringement. And copyright law in the U.S. is f****** terrible.