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*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. *

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 132 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 25 points 2 years ago

You just gotta show up.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Thanks for believing in me child.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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 22 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

And piracy isn't stealing anyway!

But I still enjoy that phrase.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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