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Old 07-18-2014, 12:19 AM   #192
hashken
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
Not disputing morality, but is this really legal and not considered piracy? Ideally if one is cheated by a B&M store, one is given the wrong or defective product or no product at all, if one has exhausted the usual methods of getting the product, then one should be able to legally just march into the store and take the right product. I suspect this is not the case.

Of course, as you said, because they can.

Helen
I also agree it is not exactly legal.

But, if I get cheated by a B&M store, I have the option of going to another B&M store to get the same product and I can forever avoid the former one. But, in case of these content distributors, there is almost absolute monopoly in their respective regions (atleast in developing countries like mine), and you are stuck with them.

So, you are either forced to play by their rules or you are going to say, screw this, I'm going to take matters into my hands. But, of course, these conglomerates have successfully lobbied the gvernments to make any and all kinds of such circumventions illegal, although they maybe morally right. So, if you are going to follow the latter method, you are just doing it at your own risk.

As long as you are somehow paying back the original copyright holder, I don't think any of this is morally wrong, the question is whether it is legally right, and if not, how much you are willing to risk for it.

Last edited by hashken; 07-18-2014 at 12:27 AM.
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