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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Licences for media are country specific. So vpns allow you to circumvent that. I don't beleive it's piracy. But it's....something.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That made sense at a time when media was physical and could be stopped at the border. There are no border posts in the internet.

    So now we could either a) make the copyright industry draw up new licenses that make sense for the internet, or b) make everyone else spend billions to create and suffer border posts in the internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    That's actually part of the motivation behind russian internet isolation, their head bitch leading the charge on it believes that the internet "violates the existence of borders in the world".

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Yeah it's outdated. But should the worldwide license cost the same as the licence just for lithuania? What if you were a small upstart just trying to do something online for your local community? Or a school hosting licenced media for study purposes.

    While you are right there are theoretically no borders on the internet. They can be built, Netflix US or Netflix AUS for instance are geo blocking so they can pay smaller licences. And that is their right just as much as it is for a school which is fenced with a .edu login. At least in copyright laws current iteration. Who should be responsible for an outside actor getting access?

    Fun to think about.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    So if I buy a physical game in the US, that is me buying a licence to play the game (as it has already been made clear legally that I do not own the game through means of DRM). If I then move to a different country and take that game with me without repurchasing it in another country, is that piracy?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Na coz you own the media outright. But streaming a show from a country on Netflix that you are not in, is against the licences terms. I don't think you would be liable. Its more a Netflix problem providing media to someone who theyre not licenced to share it with.

    Edit: I'm thinking offline physical copys not online serviced games.

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