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[–] spiderman@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am a pirate myself but they have to implement video DRM since the content is technically their's and you are just allowed to view it as long as you are subscribed to them, and they don't want their content to be stolen (which they can't stop btw).

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. The content's copyright is technically owned by the copyright holders, not Google.

  2. Copying isn't theft. Nothing is removed from the servers; YouTube still has its copy. Calling it "stealing" is biased loaded language.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Strictly speaking copyright also means that the copyright holder is the only one that is allowed to either copy the content or grant permissions to copy it, thus any of us making copies of things to be sure we don't lose access to it are truly breaking that. But I would be a lot more conflicted about it if the system wasn't like it currently is and it wasn't almost only big corporations that seem to benefit.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I create art, then copyright states that you cannot copy (and redistribute) the art I created.

I'd be bummed out and it would feel like you just stole from me. Now the people I might have sold my art aren't interested, as they already got it for free. It feels like the work I did was wasted, and I also lost some profits, the amount of which is naturally hard to guess, but still.

Story time's over. So your 2nd point is shit, and I wish people stopped making that. It's not biased or loaded because there are actual monetary losses to whomever it is you are illegally copying stuff from, instead of paying.

Anyway, I just pirate because I really just will not pay for 10 different subs to get the content I want. Never. Spotify is great, but as long as movie/tv streaming is fragmented, Piracy will never dwindle.

Just stop fucking justifying yourselves with shit arguments.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I'd be bummed out and it would feel like you just stole from me.

Words have meanings. You are factually incorrect, and frankly, I don't give a shit how you "feel" about it.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how webrips still exist literally everywhere. They built a 10 foot wall, so someone else just built an 11 foot ladder.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

They built a 10 foot wall, so someone else just built an 11 foot ladder.

That is sir, the beauty of piracy.