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-up1280arrow-down112
arrow-up1268arrow-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-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-219 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
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minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 day 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.
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
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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.