Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
by khedoros1 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:46PM
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I'm pretty sure that they meant "consume" as in "watch", not "consume" as in "make unavailable for further use". So, watching a movie doesn't consume it, but one does consume movies.
In the economic sense consumption means a resource is used and cannot readily be re-used at its original quality. Copying a file does not deprive anybody of anything, I cannot even see a reasonable argument when the case involves a market where the good is not even offered for sale.