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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And everybody who has ever watched a DVD with more than one other person is also breaking the law. That's a public performance you criminals!! An unauthorised exhibition!! How is Robert De Niro going to afford the purchase of another luxury hotel with you dirty thieves not paying for extra copies for all those other free loading naughty people to watch, huh, huh!? Did you think about that when you were stealing from Mr. DeNiro, I bet you didn't, did you? Shame, shame. If you don't buy the DVD's then how are Hollwyood's finest and brightest stars supposed to afford cocaine and hookers? Ask yourself that, naughty person, the next time you lend your friend a DVD!
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Except that this claim isn't an accurate interpretation of the law. In fact, by presenting it as if it is, it *might* be construed as legal advice which, in many jurisdictions, would make *them* liable for prosecution-for practicing law without a license. (Don't have enough details to be sure though-for example, if the warning was written by a lawyer, whose copyright would be owned by the company per contract, then that might avoid such prosecution-if anybody was silly enough to file it.)
In any case, you need to be aware that it's actually a court's determination of what the law says that determines whether or not a given act is legal-not a company's interpretation.