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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by BobaFloutist on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @07:29PM (#46052653)
Was it piracy to leave the room and make a snack during TV ads?
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:01PM (#46052867)
It's becomes piracy when you create a new distribution without ads... which you're doing with ad blockers.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by bcraven on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:42PM (#46053192)
https://www.tivo.com/support/how-to/how-to-use-SkipMode

A data point is TiVo who are, apparently, still around and have a 'skip ads' button on recorded content.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:01PM (#46053356)
Still not a new distribution.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by phantasmish on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:23AM (#46056733)
TIL when I watch YouTube I’m distributing things.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:56PM (#46053306)
That is not what distribution means.

I am allowed to splice up my personal copies of videos.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:13PM (#46053431)
You are allowed to splice it up, when you have a legally acquired personal copy.

But in this case you don't have one in the first place.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:58PM (#46054054)
They are sending the data for me to watch.

Legally able to watch and legally able to splice up are at the same level, as far as copyright is concerned. And I don't even need to make an extra copy to do the kind of live splicing an ad blocker does.

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