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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:15AM (#12693010)
This kind of piracy existed before. Remember sharing music CDs with friends? Remember libraries over buying books? Remember letting your friends borrow your comics or reading photocopies?
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by izacus on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:21PM (#12694212)
Well, our corporate overlords are trying really hard to make these things a criminal offense in the future. How DARE you share a piece of content you bought with another? The licensing terms forbid it!
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by j2bax on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:56PM (#12695094)
Sharing a piece of original physical media is different than sharing a photocopy or burned copy. Sharing the physical media with the license attached to it is legal, making a copy is not as you can't create an additional license (unless allowed by the publisher) with the copied media.
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by Pokepokalypse on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:37AM (#12693805)
I 'member.
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