• @Treczoks
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    11 days ago

    If a company cannot do business without breaking the law it simply is a criminal organisation. RICO act, anyone?

    • @[email protected]
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      2611 days ago

      The law they’re breaking is civil, so they can only get sued; this is basically Napster. Also this case is is Britain, so RICO doesn’t apply.

      • @[email protected]
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        1511 days ago

        If this is OK, downloading a movie to watch it, not to make any profit, is OK, right? If it isn’t, will they get fined proportionally to the people who get fined for downloading a movie?

        • @Valmond
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          511 days ago

          They do want to make a profit though…

        • Pika
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          11 days ago

          some countries this is actually legal, it’s just the redistributing part that is illegal

          note: I’m oversimplifying here, the countries that allow for downloading aren’t actually letting you have it for free, it’s under the basis that you’ve already purchased one form of the movie and you are downloading it so you can preserve what you have purchased already

    • @[email protected]
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      1911 days ago

      If a company cannot do business without breaking the law

      …then it doesn’t deserve to be in business.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      11 days ago

      If a company cannot do business without breaking the law

      I mean, which law? If Altman was selling shrooms or some blow that hasn’t been stepped on a dozen times, I might be willing to cut him some slack. At least that wouldn’t add a few million tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.