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The damage is calculaded like this, because those who’ve used the streaming service to watch a movie would have needed to purchase some form of a licence to do so legally. It’s not a question of whether they would have had the money or the willing to do so. It’s the same like someone would sneak into a cinema and watch a movie. They usually would be required to purchase a ticket to do so. The damage is not a question of whether they would have had the money for that or wouldn’t have went to the cinema if purchasing a ticket was necessary.
This is mainly an issue of the terms damage and loss being overloaded with different meanings.
If the act of unlicensed access comes at no distribution or access cost to the creator and publisher, then it’s a different kind of damage than if you damage or steal physical property. Stealing from the official distribution channel may incur cost.
All of these are unrelated to production cost and right to [controlled] distribution.
When a car is stolen from a car dealership, their property is lost. They can no longer sell it. Digital content however, is copyable and distributable at marginal cost, whether it is accessed in other instances without a license or not.
This discrepancy is what leads to these very different views and comments of damage not being real damage. They have not “lost” anything after all. They still own the product and the rights. You can argue about forms of loss, but it’s undeniable that they still have these.
Of course, yes.
What if they watched it at a friend’s house?
Everyone goes to prison. How dare they not feed money to the big companies?
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There is no such scenario for digital distribution.
The whole point it that content has been consumed without purchasing a proper licence.
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From the legal pov that simply does not matter at all.
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They’re using copyright math.
I agree, but you broke rule 1 of this community (English language only)
Edit: I wrote the comment before I saw your edit.
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At least when it’s not exact numbers like here, it could be “10% is still millions”. But obviously, I doubt that’s their calculation. It usually is the nonsense “full” calc.
That battle station looks radical!
Towels right next to it for when the CPUs are sweating too much
And bottle of water on top of the racks… scary
That’s in case of the servers overheating and catching fire. The fire will melt the plastic bottles and poor water on the fire. Trust me, I’m an engineer.
I see, DIY fire sprinklers.
The article talks about police being able to access encrypted data. More details about that should be made public regarding backdoors.
It also mentions child porn, I’m guessing that was perhaps the thing that caught their attention first.
I’m also able to gain access to encrypted data - if I have the passphrase.
