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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by malermeister on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:20PM (#36514666)
I am in my jurisdiction. [0]

You might not be in yours, but that doesn't make me a pirate.

[0] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:39AM (#36517918)
That looks similar to how it is in the US. But here it's not the copying that's disallowed, it's the breaking of the encryption to enable you to get a useful copy. So unencrypted but copyrighted material can be copied, but encrypted copyrighted material cannot. And blu-rays are all encrypted.
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