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

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    If I were to steal cable, I would be using the cable company’s resources to deliver content to my house without paying for it. If I were to set up an inductor under a power line to steal power, I would be depriving the power company of power they could have sold to somebody else without giving them anything in return.

    When I torrent something, I don’t even put any additional load on Netflix’s servers. With their current monetization scheme I don’t even make the show’s producers any less money.

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      11 months ago

      And when you subscribe to 1 or 2 rotating streaming services and only torrent for personal archiving purposes, you aren’t even depriving the streaming services of any revenue.

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      11 months ago

      When I torrent something

      wrong.

      I torrrented a gratis OS called Arch the other day. Please understand torrenting doesn’t equate to copyright infringement.

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        11 months ago

        It was clear from context what was meant, i.e. torrenting copyrighted content. Let’s not be disingenuous about this.