Jack@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMeta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seedingarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down16
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minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up139arrow-down4·1 day agoSo, piracy is legal if you don’t distribute? What the fuck is Zuck smoking?
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up74·edit-21 day agoWell, that’s how it tends to be in most places. You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading. Using a similar logic to distribution via DVDs. Only the seller gets into trouble. The buyer does not.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoYup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.
minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoEh. Makes sense from the perspective of protecting profits, I guess, because the actual thing which bothers them is the volume of lost potential customers…
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 day agoElitism. He is of the belief that he is better than you, and doesn’t live in the same world as you.
minus-squareregrub@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoAnd the copyright owners have no problem with them profiting from derived works that were made using pirated content?
minus-squareRain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoyou can download it, but you can’t use it. so restrictive :(
So, piracy is legal if you don’t distribute? What the fuck is Zuck smoking?
Well, that’s how it tends to be in most places.
You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading.
Using a similar logic to distribution via DVDs. Only the seller gets into trouble. The buyer does not.
Yup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.
Eh. Makes sense from the perspective of protecting profits, I guess, because the actual thing which bothers them is the volume of lost potential customers…
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Elitism. He is of the belief that he is better than you, and doesn’t live in the same world as you.
And the copyright owners have no problem with them profiting from derived works that were made using pirated content?
you can download it, but you can’t use it. so restrictive :(