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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Plex prices are expensive just to access your own media.

I’m as guilty as the next guy, but it’s nearly never our “own” media.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's the fun part of Plex: they're a commercial company that earns money by facilitating piracy. I wonder when they'll be investigated or sued by the RIAA

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 hours ago

They're not facilitating anything other than media organization and playback. What you're suggesting is akin to Ford being investigated for 'facilitating bank robbery' because some robbers used a Mustang as a getaway vehicle.

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Maybe that’s not the most popular content on my Plex config but all my fishing session recordings are on it and those belong to me :)

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It is though. Property doesn't know who it belongs to like crap you steal in a video game, all flagged red when you try to sell it at a potion shop. Owning the information on your computer is as natural as owning the bugs that are eating your mouldy mint plant.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I have accidentally observed a reflection of a Disney movie in the reflective windows from a house i do not live and saved that information trough my retinas into my brain.

Who needs to go to jail in this situation? I who now possesses illegal information in my mind, or the careless home owner who flashed their copy onto me?

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Pie in the sky techno babble with zero meaning. How the fuck did this comment get up votes?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 24 minutes ago

It reads like the monkeys writing Shakespeare; put together like a sentence but god knows what it means.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 4 hours ago

Cake in the ground capitalism-babble

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 4 hours ago

In this community I’d assume it nearly always is …