Jordan Kendrick :popos: (@[email protected])
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@[email protected] @[email protected] If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•1 year ago

    Remember that there were also big campaigns against tape recorders and VCR. They even managed to get VCR vendors to implement a feature that prevents users from skipping ads. So it’s not like it’s simply legal, the media corps were just not as successful in their lobbying as they are today.

    • Froyn
      4•1 year ago

      I can’t find anything about VCR’s blocking; I did find a bunch saying the opposite.

      There were copy protections that prevented a VHS -> VHS copy being made of some movies. Easily defeated, but they did exist.

      My scenario was recording an Over The Air transmission onto VHS using a VCR; not making a backup copy of a movie you purchased on VHS.

      Edit: I do recall a campaign against VHS recording of TV shows, but didn’t it ended basically saying “Broadcast public == public domain”?. That actually led to copy protections in VHS tapes.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      I don’t recall ever having a VCR that prevented skipping ads. Maybe that was a Tivo thing?