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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
Yes. You paid to rent a license to view the movie for a set time period. If you have Netflix, you COULD keep the movie until you've had time to watch it. But instead you copy it, which by freakin' definition is piracy. How is that hard to understand?
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When I copy a dvd I get from netflix I am not affecting the movie industry's pocketbooks, so no I dont consider it stealing at all. Maybe "by law" it is, but there are a lot of stupid laws that are based on someone's opinion and morals. If I was actually stealing dvd's off the shelf, or somehow hacked into netflix.com and set up a free membership, that would be stealing.
In my opinion, someone cant be stolen from if they haven't suffered some kind of loss. The movie industry isnt losing any money by me copying netflix dvd's, because I wouldnt buy the dvd's anyway. You cant lose something you never would have had in the first place. If it was impossible to copy dvd's I still wouldn't buy them. However, they are making money from me because of my netflix subscription, and so are the manufacturers and resellers of dvd-r's. Just doing my part to help the economy.
