> 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?
Wait, can you? In the US and EU, physical copies are for personal use only. Where are you that this would be legal?
The selective enforcement exposes to me that it doesn't really have a ethical leg to stand on.
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.
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.
you're saying if any thing is legal it's impossible, and if any thing is possible it's never legal
Once upon a time, ASCAP would show up at your small-town record shop and make you pay under threat of lawsuit.
I can't mass print/burn/copy copyrighted works, but the key word here is 'mass'.