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Its wose mentionning that this comic name is inspired by "Still this film". A 2 parts documentary from 2006/2007 about our freedom restriction implied by copyright laws and intelectual property non-sense. From TBP team, before TBP AFK. Very interresting to see. Sadly 20 years after, nothing has changed...
Of course it's free to "steal", magnets are hidden in this messy website: https://stealthisfilm.org/Part1/ https://stealthisfilm.org/Part2/
Hewww, I was not aware of this book, thanks.
Wikipedia link "see also" section has a nice list of "Steal this" related content.
The Birate Pay
The Butt Pirate
what's funny is about 1/3rd of my movies i have on my JF server i have at one point had on vhs, blueray, dvd, or netflix. i unsubbed to netflix and amazon a few months ago once i got my jellyfin server to be reliable enough. 100% wouldn't look back.
Title says “Steal This Comic” so I did.
Sue me.
I used to think this way, but then I found out that Disney is actively censoring media that they've bought the rights to, so now my argument is that you should pirate stuff to keep the original art available
Like what exactly?
Macross 7 by Disney directly, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Simpsons by various other rights holders, and probably more that I'm not even aware of
Right now it's just one plotline in Macross 7 that involves sexual assault, and some "offensive" episodes of Always Sunny and The Simpsons. From what I've read, the Macross one makes the show better, but I'd rather not set a precedent that lets them clip out every gay and trans character to please the current administration
Also add Community to that list. Can't watch the DnD episode on Netflix anymore because there's a gag about Chang's unfortunate dark elf cosplay looking like black face.
It's okay, black face will be acceptable soon in the US under the current admin.
Sad but true. At least it's gonna be funny watching the same companies that went overboard and removed the harmless instances just to virtue signal do a complete 180 and allow genuinely hateful content on their platforms.
I thought Libation merely broke the TOS, not violated the law (UK). Doesn't matter, I'm on a different vendor now.
I believe that's US law. (I'm not a lawyer, though.)
This shows us that the entire (modern) concept of buying digital goods is flawed
But what is it's an NFT?
even IF you buy DRM free items it can still be taken away.
Source: "Sick Boi" by Ren on BandCamp got taken out of my library, should be in the #2 spot
bandcamp (DRM free)
Spotify (not DRM free)
I understand it is a copyright thing (even though the artist did literally nothing wrong) but still! It fits the flowchart in the meme.
That sucks and all, but to be fair this is entirely on you. They sold you a DRM-Free file and you chose to not actually use it and to rely on their servers which you have no control over. This isn't a "DRM Free" issue.
Personal ownership means you take personal responsibility for it.
It fits the exact thing the comic shows. The comic said DRM free is the solution. I am showing that it is not immune to the same issues that DRM content has.
you chose to not actually use it
my hard drive broke. I had it downloaded and went to go redownload it
Also they advertise the app as streaming.
This isn't a "DRM Free" issue.
that's what I was pointing out, that BandCamp has the same issues.
Overall I agree though, it is kinda on me to not have my download backed up.
my hard drive broke.
okay, so... back it up on 2 separate things then.
artists can choose to unpublish a song. that's their prerogative.
Every day that passes I think more and more that I should have a local backup copy of my whole GOG games collection.
I have a reminder pop every few months to download the newest games that I bought from GoG. I've found it easier to download one or two, rather than a giant batch.
And where do you store them? Do you have a NAS? Or a big disk for backups?
I have a big storage server and a couple of backup drives for all my media
If you buy something DRM free, you must keep an offline copy. They can take away the option to download it, but they can't prevent you from playing the copy you already downloaded.
On Bandcamp you could have downloaded the files, the song could still be playable and you would still own it. DRM-free just allows you to download stuff so that if anything changes in the future you still have the original available, anything hosted can be changed at any time in order to stay out of trouble as a site owner. It still sucks that this is happening though
yeah I get why, it's just such BS