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Comment by salviati

4 months ago

> I can play physical copies of music and movies wherever I happen to bring them

Wait, can you? In the US and EU, physical copies are for personal use only. Where are you that this would be legal?

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gausswho  4 months ago

You're right, I should have qualified that this is a limited use. But the limit is, in practice, quite fluid. They won't make a lawsuit over a slumber party. Probably not for a meetup. I expect they will for a theatre. Will they for a dive bar with a bunch of old CD's and DVD's? Or for a funeral?

The selective enforcement exposes to me that it doesn't really have a ethical leg to stand on.

  • realusername  4 months ago

    > Will they for a dive bar with a bunch of old CD's and DVD's? Or for a funeral?

    Not sure where you live but yeah they do, in France they even asked a school to pay for the kids singing a song, they make hairdressers pay, they absolutely would ask a funeral to pay.

  • selectodude  4 months ago

    The limit isn’t fluid. If you’re operating a business, you can’t use music to make money. Slumber party? Fine. Charging people to sleep at your house? Not fine.

dfxm12  4 months ago

The ability to do something and legality of it are mutually exclusive (ETA: oops, I mean independent of one another). OP appears to be making a moral argument anyway.

Regardless, no one will magically show up and break arbitrary cd player functionality like they are remotely disrupting Internet access if someone pirates la Liga.

  • 15155  4 months ago

    > no one will magically show up and break arbitrary cd player functionality

    Once upon a time, ASCAP would show up at your small-town record shop and make you pay under threat of lawsuit.

  • goopypoop  4 months ago

    "mutually exclusive" means these things cannot both be true

    you're saying if any thing is legal it's impossible, and if any thing is possible it's never legal

Xelbair  4 months ago

Depends on the country, over here i can legally share it with friends and family. As in legally create a copy and gift it.

I can't mass print/burn/copy copyrighted works, but the key word here is 'mass'.