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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by tzs on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:50AM (#31123170)
I have some used oil I need to get rid of. I could drive the 45 mile round trip to the county hazardous waste disposal site and get rid of it properly. Or I could wait until we get a good rain and pour it into the drainage ditch in front of my house, where it will eventually end up somewhere in Puget Sound.

The amount of oil is small enough that it would have absolutely no measurable effect whatsoever on Puget Sound.

Would you say that it is therefore OK for me to dump it in the ditch?

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by orhmeh09 on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:13PM (#31123536)
If the environmental impact assessment (you should already have conducted this) shows the impact of dumping your 1 ml - 1,000 l is less than the impact of your driving 45 miles, go for it!
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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by newman8r on Friday April 22, 2022 @04:19PM (#31127518)
> Would you say that it is therefore OK for me to dump it in the ditch?

I'd say no - because it's decreasing the intrinsic value of a shared resource (whether or not it can be measured). Downloading a movie, on the other hand - doesn't decrease the intrinsic value of the media being copied.

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