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by somecallmeFred on November 28th, 2011

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Should it be legal to stream a movie if you pay for the movie, upstream bandwidth, and receive no compensation for broadcasting?

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  • by Bella20aa on February 13th, 2012
    voted: Ok for small groups of friends

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  • by TheGrimReefer on November 30th, 2011

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    Here's the thing.

    When the studio sells that movie, they should be selling a license rather than a DVD.
    Your license is a contract. You can watch that movie whenever you wish. If your DVD is damaged, you can download the movie from them and burn your own DVD.
    However, you can't upload to bittorrent or broadcast or give copies to others.
    If you do, that's breach of contract.

    That would be the right way to do it.

    Instead what they have is this nonsensical quasi-license. You buy a DVD, if the DVD breaks you need to buy another, so you didn't buy the content, right? But you can't copy the DVD... so it is about the content? And if you get the content given to you by someone else, and you never accept any license or buy any DVD, they still have an issue with you copying that content?

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  • by The Doctor of Computer Forumz on November 28th, 2011
    voted: Ok for small groups of friends

    The Doctor of Computer Forumz

    It depends on how you stream it.

    If you are streaming from a web hosting service to anyone on the Internet, that would be illegal.

    If you are streaming from your own home server or other personal device (Pogoplug), that still may not be legal but who's going to know.

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  • by FireFtw on November 28th, 2011

    FireFtw

    Honestly I don't care if its legal or not, i'll still get them. >:D

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