If you don't have a file or physical media, assume that you're renting, no matter what the company calls it.
I'm done with Google
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#12> She has a copy of it I got on google play for her which she can play on her tablet.
> So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault).
Is it pirated if you already own a legally valid license?
How about rips of blu-rays you own, which you solely use and do not intend to share? Is that pirating or using your legally owned product on a different medium?
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#13When this happen, I do just download the movie (or book or music) illegally. I bought it, I own it, and companies trying to not let me have it despite that should expect this.
I do that too (but i skip the first step).
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#14One of us. Welcome to your new google-lite life (for nobody can truly escape Big G). Things are better here.
Only those who go full Stallman can avoid Youtube.
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#15> The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates. I know this quote gets thrown around whenever we talk about piracy, but there is a reason it resonates so well with everyone. I might have multiple streaming subscriptions and I still occasionally get blu-rays and DVDs, but I still prefer m…
I've known more than one music studio owner in the past who used a cracked Cubase despite owning a legal license because their anti-privacy dongles created lots of compatibility problems. The pirated copy simply worked better.
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#16> So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault)
I really like the frank tone of the article and I wish people in general would just write unabashedly more often when it comes to stuff like this. Writers online love to dance around the idea of "pirating" their digital goods when communicating on the topic: "Ooh my 'friend' may or may not have downloaded 'xyz' movie from 'abc' website, but I don't advocate piracy".
I pirate music. I pirate movies. Who gives a fuck? I'm not selling it for money. I love having mp4 files, I love having mp3 files. I ESPECIALLY love pirating mp3 files ever since Spotify and the streaming/subscription model has taken over. spytify automatically records mp3 files with metadata tags while you personally listen to Spotify https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify
Adhering to file-based digital possessions has saved me countlessly over the years and it will continue to. I had my music uploaded to Google Play Music, and once that was shut down (the equivalent songs are not in the replacement), I swore off streamed music as a way to organize my personal library, forever. When I end up liking enough content from an artist, I try to find best avenues for compensation, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.
The things I could be doing better in this regard is better file organization and encrypting everything to safeguard against when cloud file-hosting services come for me based on some dystopian DRM file-content scanning scheme. I've not hit that extreme point yet, however, although I should get around to it sooner than later with rclone (makes it trivially easy) https://github.com/rclone/rclone
And when a situation like the article arises, getting your auntie access to The Wizard of Oz might just be an Airdrop away.
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#17Tablets and Android don't mix well. On an Android phone, you use it every day, so your auth doesn't get stale and everything stays up to date. On a tablet, if you leave it off for a few days or longer, turning it on prompts a bunch of updates and reauthentication.
Also, the boot process is pretty slow, and most tablets I've tried are pretty slow in general (responsiveness). I think they need to de-bloat Android, especially for tablets. The hardware I've used these on is plenty quick.
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#18I know that this article is about Google, but the same arguments apply to digital media bought on almost all major platforms -- Amazon, Netflix, Apple all have similar shady practices. If you want to truly own a media file for "life", there are only two options: (i) buy a BluRay/DVD/CD-ROM version and rip it yourself for posterity and easy access, (ii) pirate it.
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#19Well, I just told YT Premium that I will happily give them money if they let me download their videos normally. If Steam and porn sites can manage, so can Youtube.
I also cancelled my HBO because they removed Westworld which I was just about to watch. Thanks but no thanks.
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#20Google Movies and the like have never been a means of ownership. The only way to own your media is to rip it from physical disks or pirate it.