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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by ythn on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:30PM (#16360214)
> But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content. Otherwise, I'm not sure where everyone is getting all these non DRM digital downloads.

Do you count digitizing my existing DVD collection with Handbrake "piracy"? I don't.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Spivak on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:34PM (#16360239)
Nobody does (or should)-- it's not copyright infringement.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by pbhjpbhj on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:44PM (#16360840)
It is in multiple jurisdictions; please be careful to be specific if you're talking about a limited geography.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by jjeaff on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:07AM (#16365089)
In the us it is illegal. Dmca violation since virtually all DVD and Blu-ray has DRM these days.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by ythn on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:18PM (#16360604)
Sometimes people group it with piracy since technically it's a DCMA/DRM violation
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