_number8_@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months agoWhy is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?message-squaremessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1512arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up1487arrow-down1message-squareWhy is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?_number8_@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square113fedilinkfile-text
this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?
minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoThat’s not the ownership though, that’s a subscription to a service. Ownership is something like buying songs on iTunes not listening to them on Apple music.
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minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoBut that is where the difference is, that’s not streaming or at least not as the term is used. That was a purchase of a specific title.
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That’s not the ownership though, that’s a subscription to a service. Ownership is something like buying songs on iTunes not listening to them on Apple music.
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But that is where the difference is, that’s not streaming or at least not as the term is used. That was a purchase of a specific title.
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