• TAYRN@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes, I said from the start that it might not be moral.

    But that’s exactly the point: companies sell movies to theaters, and then those theaters sell tickets to each viewer. That’s the license they each agreed to. A theater buying a movie off Amazon and then selling tickets to everyone who watched it would probably make some people upset, and would very clearly be illegal.

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      9 months ago

      Talk about mental gymnastics.

      You cant sell a limited time license. That is rent, plain and simple. If you pay 3 years rent at once or monthly, its still rent.

      If you pay for something and have to give it back, you dont actually become the „owner“.

      And thats why people say if buying isnt owning, piracy isnt theft, plain and simple.

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        9 months ago

        Renting generally refers to physical goods, with the following property: when it’s being used by one party, it’s unavailable to everyone else.

        For intellectual property, things that can be used by N people without interference between them, the term limited license is correct.