@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 days agoWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.message-square24fedilinkarrow-up1277
arrow-up1277message-squareWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-24 days agoPirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-24 days agoi don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds. and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison edit: and no i do not do this
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 days agoSo your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.
Pirated movies are not something you’ve paid for. And watching DVDs with friends is not “illegal exhibition.”
i don’t pirate movies. i buy dvds.
and charging people a buck to watch “my dvd”, though, is illegal up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison
edit: and no i do not do this
So your issue isn’t that you don’t actually own the DVDs you paid for, but rather that you’re not allowed to run an unlicensed cinema.