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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's still very much copyright infringement. I don't give a shit about CI, but it still is that.

[–] Viking_Hippie 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's still not stealing though.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Except for the authors and content creators you're stealing from who get oh so much from whatever publisher they had to suck up to.

[–] dustyData 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Next you're gonna argue that skipping ads is stealing?

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 0 points 10 months ago

Next you're going to argue that reposting a creators content on your own channel isn't stealing.

[–] dustyData 7 points 10 months ago

That's a different argument. We went through this with VHS. If you tape a broadcast that you paid for, it is not copyright infringement. Unless, you start making several copies and distributing them. Recording a Netflix screen and keeping it neatly in your hard drive is not CI, nor stealing for that matter. The only leg they have to stand on is when people start making copies and charging for distributing it. But even that argument has always been dubious.