Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking

Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by cheez on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:59AM (#21015721)

> The person can’t legally access the content at all, due to age, country of residence, or other imposed barrier

I buy stuff on iTunes then pirate it in my preferred format. Same for ebooks, audiobooks, etc. Not going to risk it disappearing.

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Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by SturgeonsLaw on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:33AM (#21015981)

Or being edited. I (perhaps naively) didn't realise that happened to any real degree, but there was a thread on reddit today where someone had noticed that a series they wanted to stream had been retroactively edited to remove the music they liked from it.

Archiving media by torrenting or ripping a stream is the closest we can get to owning media in this subscription based world we live in. Of course there's physical media, with the associated drawbacks others have mentioned (availability, ads, FBI warnings, etc).

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/d68gi9/how_can...

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Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by erfgh on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:35AM (#21016000)

Itunes does not use DRM.

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Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by cheez on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:24PM (#21019029)

Pretty sure it does for movies, or at least you need to go through hassle to play it in your preferred form factor.

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Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo... by nichch on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:31PM (#21021408)

iTunes uses FairPlay DRM for tv shows and movies (at least).

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