Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day 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-up1278arrow-down112
arrow-up1266arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-224 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-215 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-up1arrow-down2·edit-29 hours agoIts illegal to get caught. And even then only in a country that is completely cucked, eg america.
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·23 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.
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.