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If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
Piracy never was stealing.
Stealing is taking with intent to deprive, making a copy does not deprive.
Stealing is taking with intent to deprive
I don't think that intent has anything to do with it.
It absolutely does. This is why joyriding is a separate offense - joyriding does not require intent to deprive, so it's an easier burden of proof for prosecutors.
Sorry you were downvoted.
FYI the real travesty is that copyright infringement used to only be a civil offense. A business could only sue you, you wouldn’t be a criminal.
However after extensive lobbying from media rights organisations (eg the MPAA) most countries now have criminal copyright infringement laws on the books. These can have dangerously low thresholds - in the US if you have over $1,000 worth of infringing copyrighted material (eg much less than 100 movies) you could now be classed as a criminal.
Thank fuck for piracy.
Google pulled all my movies that i stupidly purchased over the years. That was around five years ago. I don't have any qalms of sailing the seas for movies anymore.
Out of curiosity are you sure you can’t access them on YouTube? I found many of my Google Movie purchases there even though I was never warned or told.
With that said still scummy and 100% not buying from Google again.
If buying is not owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
It's funny.. because Linux sucks guy thinks the Sony PlayStation is the greatest console.. just wait until they f their player base
they already do and the fanboys defend them
Yes Sir.
I want the movie media I buy to randomly not work due to new copy protection not compatible with my player, I want my CD's to have spyware, and it's excellent for consumers to buy hardware which is locked down 100% to a single vendors store.
Nevermind that the PS5 probably uses linux internally, what I really need is something thats a computer, but totally locked
Just like the Linux sucks guy.
I wonder if there's a 500+ item torrent right now somewhere called, "All the Movies Sony Pulled this Week."
This is going to be a huge wakeup call to a lot of people. These are some BIG movies that a lot of people are going to have to REWATCH regularly.
Personally, I'm enjoying my quasi-TV Land-style media life watching what I can pick up at thrift stores for 50 cents-$2.
I decided that my internet bill was really only there for streaming; once I got rid of streaming, I realized I could get by quite fine with an unlimited cellular connection, limited hotspot, and transfer files from my phone to my PC if necessary.
The thrift store and library media experience is pretty unparalleled.
And it gives you access to out of print, unstreamable because of copyrights and obscure titles.
Haha, do games next
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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