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Originally Posted by gideongallery
so by your logic i should have a right to do whatever i want with the dvd i bought
if i want to rip it and post it on the torrent i should be allowed to do that since i paid for it mine i should be able to do with it as i please.
you don't buy the right to drive a car, you buy the car
if you want property rights to dictate the transaction there are no such thing as licience rights to consider.
if you want licience rights to be the bases of the transaction, then you have a problem because your control over liciencing right are given to you by the government in exchange for your agreement to respect fair use.
pick one
you can't have your cake and eat it too
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Ok. Forget the car as an example.
Bottom line. If I own the rights to a movie I should get to decide how it is distributed. That is it. That is all I am saying. If my movie isn't playing near you and you want to see it, tough. Just because it isn't available right then doesn't mean it won't be latter and you are not entitled to see it just because it is playing somewhere on some screen.
If you want to use that logic then when a movie gets a limited start release and in only playing in one theater in LA and NY for a few weeks before rolling out to the rest of the nation/world you should be able to download it because it is playing in a theater, you want to see it and it isn't near you. That isn't how it works. That isn't how it should work. Again, it is my movie, I should get to to decide how it is distributed and if I decide that you don't get access to it and you want to take it I should have the ability to come after you legally for trying to take what is yours.
You can spin all the bullshit in the world and site all the bullshit numbers about technology and economies and fair use, I don't care. This is how I feel. If you make a movie and want to distribute it a different way, so be it, but I shouldn't be forced into anything I don't want to do just because you the viewer has decided you are entitled to it.