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I agree. I would expect the affluent to have a much more intelligent argument than "well... everyone else pirates (with differing levels of justification) and life goes on". Piracy is an alternative... not a solution.
what's the alternative if he's looking to stream from cli to vlc?
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You justify piracy because the legal method (having a cable subscription) is inconvenient?
Some people think about this way too morally - For most of us, morality never enters the equation, I just want to watch something, there's no "justification" it's just "how do I get the content?" in an absolutely utilitarian sense.
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You justify piracy because the legal method (having a cable subscription) is inconvenient?
Some people think about this way too morally - For most of us, morality never enters the equation, I just want to watch something, there's no "justification" it's just "how do I get the content?" in an absolutely utilitarian sense.
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Some people think about this way too morally - For most of us, morality never enters the equation, I just want to watch something, there's no "justification" it's just "how do I get the content?" in an absolutely utilitarian sense.
I guess in the same way folks are uncivil online. The virtual world doesn't seem to have the same emotional force as the real world. So folks lie, cheat and steal without hesitation.
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Some people think about this way too morally - For most of us, morality never enters the equation, I just want to watch something, there's no "justification" it's just "how do I get the content?" in an absolutely utilitarian sense.
Just because someone is unaware of morality does not mean morality ceases to exist...
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming. A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content. Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for ad…
Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not. Seeding by default sadly gets a lot of newbs into trouble - especially as publicising IP addresses are part of the protocol. Porn blackmail companies and MPAA agents know that seeders are low hanging fruit. Similarly Limewire and ilk using the downloads folder as a default share folder is useful for the health of the network bu…
Really? This is yet another step closer to "The Right to Read". Such a waste. We should end scarcity, not create it artificially.
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1. No one is caring about morality in the end. I believe many people do not believe illegal copying to be immoral. 2. Yes, are there any data on that these people would ever pay? 3. Yes and like all digital content we have the ability to spread our work across the globe very fast at little to no extra cost. If we limit our work to a certain country we only have ourselves to blame when people are illegally copying it.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: I'm a pirate as well. I was just commenting on how these threads always seem to go through the same motions, and nothing is accomplished, because everyone has already heard the arguments against their position and has found them unconvincing.
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I don't know what parent is saying, but my choice of software shouldn't be the concern of content distributors . It's their job to make content available after all. If they don't want my business, I'll take it elsewhere
That's exactly how capitalism should work. But for a moment there it sounded as if you were contemplating piracy, rather than taking your business elsewhere.
We need a Richard Stallman for media.
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> Streaming in general (apart from via a local server) frustrates me. The entire idea is simply a way of relinquishing control to an external body. Not said enough; thank you. There was outrage (rightfully so) over DRM on videos and music, because it handcuffed the user, and it prevented legitimate and legal activities like moving music to a new device. The streaming situation is far more restrictive, but nobody seem…
This comment is irrelevant to the topic at hand. Not only is this app (or any other torrent streaming app, including uTorrent and qBittorrent and PopcornTime) not have any DRM, you can use the fully downloaded file after you stream it. [1] For non-torrent sources, streaming is not tied to DRM either. Most youtube videos are not flash based, but streamed MP4 files that aren't DRM'd in any way; you can get the MP4 file…
Not to mention, if my hard drives and backups fail, I have bigger problems than my video hoard!
Additionally, I can bookmark _and_ download; that would take what, 0.5 seconds longer? :)