Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 days agoWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.message-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-213 days agoPirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 days agoi don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds. and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison edit: and no i do not do this
minus-squareOpinionhaver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoSo your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.
minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoI wonder what the “license” part of “unlicensed cinema” is. Could it… Could it just maybe have something to do with… Not actually owning the things you buy, and therefore requiring a license?
Pirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
i don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds.
and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison
edit: and no i do not do this
So your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.
I wonder what the “license” part of “unlicensed cinema” is. Could it… Could it just maybe have something to do with… Not actually owning the things you buy, and therefore requiring a license?