Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea?

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Send me a physical disc. I’ll copy to digital media. You still own both of those.

  When you want to watch a different movie, you give up ownership of your previous one and you now own the other one, including its digital copy which you can now stream. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might want to fire up one of those DVDs and read the FBI warning at the beginning. No matter how many DVDs you own, it doesn’t give you license to distribute it.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But you can sell it, yes? And you can give it away for free or trade. And that person can create a digital copy and put it on a server.

      So is it illegal to stream from someone else’s server?

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I do not know the legal specifics, but I will warn you not to trust in “Common Sense Law”.

        Which is my own term defined as: Knowing a little bit about the law (If I own a DVD, I’m legally allowed to watch it) and filling in ALL the other details with assumptions based on your own limited understanding of the laws.

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