Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just would like to have a discussion on the topic. I've purchased around 20ish movies/shows on Vudu, and my wife has grown to be unhappy with Vudu's UI and especially how the watch progress works. I am curious what some others thoughts on this are. My initial thoughts are I recognize I've purchased a license to watch the content, but feel that because I've purchased it I should have the right to retain total control over it and do what I please. I would like to purchase movies on physical media from now on, but wouldn't like to repurchase all the same movies and shows again when I've already paid for them

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[-] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Legally, yes it is wrong.

Morally? That depends on the person. I think asking a piracy focused community means you're going to get a heavily skewed set of answers that all veer towards various forms of "Not wrong" or "It's good actually. Don't even support the platforms that make the content legally available because DRM sucks" etc.

Generally speaking though, most older visual media releases no longer make money for anyone who worked on them directly. Use that information however you see fit. I know it changes how I think about piracy in general.

[-] adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I knew this would be a skewed sample of opinions, but I was also warry of posting this anywhere else since piracy is a touchy subject on some other instances. Also yeah I'm thinking that since I've purchased the media I should have full rights to do with said media whatever I please (other than selling it).