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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by c048 on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:41AM (#31857879)
Using your logic, anyone loaning out a book they own should be criminally charged.

This line of thinking leads to the ludicrous existing patents that describe scanning the room to check how many people are in a room and once crossed a certain threshold, the movie or show automatically stops airing.

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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by dumpsterlid on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:34AM (#31858127)
"Using your logic, anyone loaning out a book they own should be criminally charged."

Oh you better believe that if this was possible to do with physical books, it would be done.

The only reason this isn't much of a thing with ebooks is that if you use the bigger ebook services you don't really own the books in the first place.

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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by achow on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:47AM (#31857907)
Isn't the difference very clear here: Subscription vs Ownership

If you are paid member of a library, and the library has ToS which does not allow you to lend your book to anyone else, then yes you are at fault when you share.

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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by nathanielarmer on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:43AM (#31861670)
If you take a book, start photocopying it and giving away the copies you may well be.

There are limits even there.

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