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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Remember that there were also big campaigns against tape recorders and VCR. They even managed to get VCR vendors to implement a feature that prevents users from skipping ads. So it's not like it's simply legal, the media corps were just not as successful in their lobbying as they are today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can't find anything about VCR's blocking; I did find a bunch saying the opposite.

There were copy protections that prevented a VHS -> VHS copy being made of some movies. Easily defeated, but they did exist.

My scenario was recording an Over The Air transmission onto VHS using a VCR; not making a backup copy of a movie you purchased on VHS.

Edit: I do recall a campaign against VHS recording of TV shows, but didn't it ended basically saying "Broadcast public == public domain"?. That actually led to copy protections in VHS tapes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't recall ever having a VCR that prevented skipping ads. Maybe that was a Tivo thing?