Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down110
arrow-up1264arrow-down1message-squareWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 23 hours agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·19 hours agoWhat? Whose gone to jail for thinking that they own a product they’ve bought?
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agoGary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoFor selling hacking tools - not for modifying their personal device.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours agoi.e. Helping others modify their own devices You’re splitting hairs
minus-squareAnd009@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agoBricked switches come to mind, John Deere was trying to make self-repair illegal. Can’t be long before someone decides users don’t deserve their device.
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-217 hours agowould you like to come over and watch a movie at my home theatre ? i only charge one dollar for free all you can eat popcorn, a comfy chair, 12 foot screen, and huge sound system. ignore the FBI warning after I press play.
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-216 hours agoPirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-28 hours agoi don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds. and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison edit: and no i do not do this
minus-squareOniononon@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoIts illegal to get caught. And even then only in a country that is completely cucked, eg america.
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·15 hours agoSo your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.
What? Whose gone to jail for thinking that they own a product they’ve bought?
Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m
For selling hacking tools - not for modifying their personal device.
i.e. Helping others modify their own devices
You’re splitting hairs
Bricked switches come to mind, John Deere was trying to make self-repair illegal. Can’t be long before someone decides users don’t deserve their device.
would you like to come over and watch a movie at my home theatre ?
i only charge one dollar for free all you can eat popcorn, a comfy chair, 12 foot screen, and huge sound system.
ignore the FBI warning after I press play.
Pirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
i don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds.
and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison
edit: and no i do not do this
Its illegal to get caught. And even then only in a country that is completely cucked, eg america.
So your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.