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Carighan@piefed.world âš3â© âšweeksâ© agoThere will be laws for this in your country, but theyâre country specific.
For your cases:
- The key is a technical protective measure. Itâs not the IP, but circumventing it except to legally access my legally accessibly content is not allowed.
- Private showings are fine, even with a certain amount of non-personal-aquaintances in the mix.
- Re-streaming is tricky and depends on how you handle it on a technical level. Re-streaming without circumventing protective measures for your personal use is usually fine.
- You can temporarily leave during a private showing, itâs still legally a private showing.
The big difference with a streaming site is that it is automatically a public showing because they do not know who accesses the site (and in fact would not want to know, lest they open those viewers up to legality issues again).
Again, those are for my country. It differs everywhere.
lime@feddit.nu âš3â© âšweeksâ© ago
iâm thinking back to the blu-ray decryption key thing, where a key was spread in the form of a flag and therefore didnât count as copyrighted material. of course live broadcasts use rotating keys anyway so itâs not possible to do that.
a streaming site can be a private thing if it is gated by some kind of login, so thatâs also a way of getting around the issue.
what complicates it even more is that we here are even allowed to save media from any source for personal use, and we pay a âprivate copying taxâ on all storage media purchases because of that. RAM included. what constitutes âpersonal useâ is also a bit diffuse but seems to hinge on whether itâs for profit.
so technically, as long as it touches a storage device, and as long as itâs not publically available (e.g. passworded or something), and i am not charging for it, it should be entirely legal here.