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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by asdff on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:55PM (#19994742)
I hate the rental model, it's extortion. It made sense when you had to return a disk to a store for others to rent, but putting an expiration date on a digital file is absurd. At least with redbox you can rip the DVD.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zrobotics on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:11PM (#19996009)
Well, if you consider ripping the DVD valid then there's absolutely nothing stopping you from saving the rented digital stream either. At the bare minimum, aside from whatever DRM is in place directly capturing the stream w/ OBS is always viable.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by ggg2 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:37PM (#19995654)
specially when you are already paying a fixed monthly fee for the transfer cost of the near-zero-cost-to-them crappy non-premium media content, which is the same bandwidth cost to provide you with reruns of what you "rented" before.
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