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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be able to access the films and TV shows they had bought. *

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Piracy is only illegal because we made it so. We can change that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How do you change that without completely stripping property rights away from artists though? Not just corporate IP, but all artists?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Piracy doesn't take money from artists, just ask Cory Doctorow, a person making their living as a writer while uploading the torrents of his novels himself.

Corporate consolidation is what kills the artists. The studios make less movies per year, so the a list actors go to television and take the roles Rob Morrow used to get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it fine for a billion dollar company to ripoff smaller artists? It's a form of piracy, so this would be allowed, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

ripoff smaller artists

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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