Is it piracy if it’s content you purchased in the past but access was removed? In my mind, it’s absolutely not.
This is just plain double-dipping bullshit.
This is just plain double-dipping bullshit.
I agree with you more than wholeheartedly :)
Allow me to re-interpret your one statement in the opposite way from what you intended anyway ;)
Well for someone who's not at all part of a paid-media consuming class, when they do make a copy from someone who has paid, there is no booty lost by anyone.
But if you are functioning as part of a paid-media consuming class, and you paid fair & square for the material as you see fit, and then it's taken away completely, you are "absolutely" the one who has been pirated, fully plundered and lost all the booty there was to lose.
No doubt about the depth of the bullshit.
Because corporations are not people. They are composed of people, but the people of a corporation are fungible and to consider them differently is, to my mind, a huge error.
This seems like an obvious case of governmental corruption if the answer is "some law that 99.999% of people are harmed by, but makes a handful of hollywood billionaires richer".
If the current laws are bad (and they are) we should get rid of them with more consumer friendly ones. If congress is too corrupt to pass those laws, we as citizens should nullify them by collectively refusing to enforce them, whether as jurors, prosecutors, or employees of media or telecom companies.