• BeeOneTwoThree@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If a service costs money, and you take that service for free without permission it is stealing. If I rent a car I don’t own it. Is it not stealing to hijack a rental car for a few hours?

    You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You steal because it is easier or cheaper. Thats it.

    • Raven FellBlade@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Here’s my example: I subscribed to Paramount Plus explicitly for Star Trek content. The week I subscribed, they pulled all of the non-Abrams films. So I got to watching other stuff. Eventually, they brought all of the films back. Cool, right?

      So I finally get around to Prodigy, a show made for Paramount Plus. Two episodes in, and it vanishes. No announcements or warnings that that show was just going to disappear. It’s gone. Because “it wasn’t popular enough”. A show that only existed on that one platform was pulled off of that platform with absolutely no other legal way to view it. Content that I specifically signed up for that platform to see, and now I can’t… legally. Yo ho, yo ho, me hardies.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      1 year ago

      If I rent a car I don’t own it. Is it not stealing to hijack a rental car for a few hours?

      Not a great hypothetical. Copying files would mean that in your hypothetical… I see the red civic your rental service is providing… Look at it real hard, poof another one into existence and drive away in it.