Meanwhile in the warez land everything is just 1 click away, hassle free and non-DRM encumbered.
Want to find a mostly-forgotten science fiction movie from the mid-90s (in my case, Strange Days)? Two hours of hunting for a way of downloading it led me to buying it through a VoD service instead.
In terms of breadth and quality of content, private torrent trackers are far and away the best download method.
Even then, private torrent trackers are better for choice.
Were a more distributed, anonymous storage system to exist instead of on prioritizing seeding and recently used, larger catalogs and quality options might exist.
"Big Buck Bunny" out whatever is copyright but the free and open license allows you to download it and consume it.
Seems pedantic but IMO it's an important point.
Copyright is automatic, restrictive licensing isn't.
You're wrong there. The "default" state of affairs for copyright is that the author retains all rights.
The context is you providing a video for me to redistribute. You don't have to, say, give me geographic limits.
This is a tort again in the UK, it wasn't then.
Also, most people would be happy to pay the actors and crew a very healthy wage but baulk at paying to add DRM and several layers of executives whose function appears to be to make it as hard as possible to actually watch the content without paying again and again and who extract far more than their share of the revenue.
I actually looked for a download of that DVD (for my friend!) but none was available. The family in question used a hacked Wii to watch DVDs, but the DRM prevented half of them from working.
Meanwhile we watched a show on YouTube other day, we could have watched it on "watch again" but the content quality was immeasurably better. Of course that too was a tort akin to torrenting.
Sure, all of the people torrenting are really just protesting as the unjust profits made by studio executives. This is laughable.
>The family in question used a hacked Wii to watch DVDs, but the DRM prevented half of them from working.
And a perfectly functional DVD player is like $20.
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>What's your second point? That just because it only costs a week's groceries to buy a DVD player it was wrong to torrent a work that has been paid for and only can't be consumed due to DRM? Do you find that use immoral?
Copyright becomes unenforceable if you can just go buy a physical DVD with cash whenever you get sued or warned for pirating something.
What's your second point? That just because it only costs a week's groceries to buy a DVD player it was wrong to torrent a work that has been paid for and only can't be consumed due to DRM? Do you find that use immoral?