The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • And009@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    That’s probably going into semantics and what the law says, it’s different for every country.

    What’s happening with games and softwares are cracks and repacking, it’s manipulating few parts of the original product to provide partial or sometimes full functionality. This is an infringement of intellectual property and not a counterfeit.

    For podcasts, music and movies it’s usually a rip, out of vinyls, lossless or a high definition source. These are copies, not manipulated in any way.

    Maybe camrips are truly a counterfeit.

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      7 months ago

      … This is an infringement of intellectual property …

      Not unless it’s distributed.

      Copying copyrighted works is not a crime. Distributing those copies is a crime.

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        7 months ago

        Copyright doesn’t explicitly say anything about distribution. Distribution is usually used to determine the scale of the crime and calculating incurred damages.