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Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by Adverblessly on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:09AM (#23301281)
Yesterday I wanted to buy a specific brand of chocolate.

It wasn't sold in any of the stores I usually go to and already pay a considerable subscription cost for.

It was only sold in some other store for 3 times the price chocolate usually goes for.

That store also refused to just sell me the chocolate, they required that I eat it inside of their store under their watchful gaze to make sure I wasn't sharing it with anyone that didn't pay.

They also made sure I ate it on a plate and using a spoon and definitely didn't touch it with my hands.

It's only available at this store under these conditions because I assume greed.

So I used my powers of PsychoKinesis to create an atom-for-atom clone of the chocolate for sale so I could eat it at my convenience.

Then the police arrested me because I violated Nestle's ownership of their recipe for making chocolate.

+100 upvotes.

Just buying Nestle's "raw chocolate mix", melting it, putting it into trays and then letting it harden in the fridge is too hard?

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by callmeal on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:44AM (#23300089)
The main problem with software development is assuming that the leaky abstractions we are using is reality.

>So I stole it instead.

Is a leaky abstraction.

Reality would be (in a sci fi universe): "So I brought out my trusty replicator and made a molecularly identical copy of it, leaving the original behind for whoever wanted to buy it."

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by skoskie on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:44AM (#23300087)
I haven’t needed a DVD player in a decade.

And, yes, I would download that chocolate bar. Especially if i was already paying three different services to to deliver chocolate bars to me on demand.

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by reaperducer on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:23PM (#23302517)
I haven’t needed a DVD player in a decade.

Then you have chosen to exclude yourself from watching literally hundreds of thousands of hours of quality entertainment that didn't make it to streaming and never will.

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by m4rtink on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:22PM (#23302511)
Well, chocolate can be 3D printed. And see The Diamond Age for how we can go from that. ;-)
Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by effingwewt on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:39AM (#23300071)
This analogy fails on every level. There are points to be made against pirating, you made zero of them. Chocolate bars are consumed and digested, digital media is not,it can be resold, rented infinitely.

There is also the point GP may have already seen the movie in theaters, why should he have to pay to watch it again. Also gp wanted to rent the movie, not purchase it,and on top of that has multiple streaming services he is subscribed to, none of which offered the movie.

People are tired of having to hunt down what they want to watch, and many would happily pay for one service that had the full catalogaavailable regardless of region. Until this happens the MPAA will never win by greed and shooting themselves in the foot.

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by IanCal on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:13AM (#23300216)
> why should he have to pay to watch it again.

Because that wasn't included in the ticket price. If it was, cinema tickets would be more valuable and they would charge more.

Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by nkrisc on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:44AM (#23300387)
When the movies I want to watch are not available I just don't watch them. Movies are a luxury, it's not like steeling bread to free your starving family.
Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by ubercow13 on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:45AM (#23301021)
I think a closer analogy would be 'so I made that chocolate bar by hand using a leaked trade-secret recipe I found on the internet, and even drew the chocolate company's copyrighted logo on the wrapper I made!'