• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Are you a thief?

    I think that when they define “thief” as someone who will watch a TV show on Dailymotion when there’s no other way to get it, they’re going to be surprised how many people (especially schoolkids) are willing to say “Yes, I’m a thief.”

  • FranticParrot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    By understanding the motivations of today’s youth, the anti-piracy group hopes to be in a better position to influence their behavior.

    I pirate because I don’t get paid the full value of my labor. Pay me more and I’ll buy more goods and services. It’s also more convenient to have everything in one place.

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      2 years ago

      The other annoying thing is that “owning” something is getting to be non-existent anymore. Sure, I can “buy” all the seasons of Supernatural from iTunes. But I only “own” the show for was long as I have my iTunes subscription, and iTunes has the rights to show it, and I have internet service with enough bandwidth to stream it, and I’m not under a bandwidth cap or some other restriction.

      Or I can grab a copy and it’ll happily live on my hard drive forever, no need to worry about subscriptions or streaming rights or bandwidth limitations.

      Tell me: in which of those scenarios do I actually “own” the series?