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In this day and age ownership of digital media is often an illusion. When you buy a book or movie there are severe restrictions on what you can do with these files. In some cases, purchased content can simply disappear overnight. These limitations keep copyright holders in control, but they breed pirates at the same time.
[...] Millions of people have now replaced their physical media collections for digital ones, often stored in the cloud. While that can be rather convenient, it comes with restrictions that are unheard of offline.
[...R]esearchers examined how the absence of the right to resell and lend affects people's choice to buy. They found that, among those who are familiar with BitTorrent, roughly a third would prefer The Pirate Bay over Apple or Amazon if they are faced with these limitations.
These rights restrictions apparently breed pirates.
"Based on our survey data, consumers are more likely to opt out of lawful markets for copyrighted works and download illegally if there is no lawful way to obtain the rights to lend, resell, and use those copies on their device of choice," the researchers concluded.
The paper in question is two years old by now, but still very relevant today. While we don't expect that anything will change soon, people should at least be aware that you don't always own what you buy.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/you-dont-really-own-that-movie-you-bought-but-pirates-180915/
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday September 19 2018, @06:22AM (1 child)
Not cheap because it costs a lot to make a movie. When you do it right it costs millions of dollars. Home Alone 2 -- one of our best movies -- that one cost $20 million to make. And made more than $350 million in sales. Incredible box office for that one. Because I'm in it. You want to buy it, not cheap. Because it's part of a set. So, probably, you have to buy the whole set together. Then it belongs to you. In a way. Because you can't just do whatever you want. You show it to folks, you have to pay the residuals. But you can have a lot of fun. Ted Turner, he bought MGM/UA's movies. Including Casablanca. Very boring film until he came along. Because they didn't make it right. They saved money on film, they did it with black & white film. Ted spent the money to put in the colors that it needed so badly. And people went, WOW, incredible job, incredible movie!!! And Ted became very very famous.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday September 19 2018, @02:46PM
So please do not pirate...
Buy a legitimate copy of "Full Disclosure." Or, if you prefer not having your childhood memories of Mario Kart's Toad used to describe presidential genitalia; support the authors and buy legitimate copes of "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House" and "Fear: Trump in the White House."
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P