Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

This is why I started collecting DVDs a few years ago. Let’s see how long they let us do that

Considering the speed at which society and entertainment is changing and being produced, at some point it ceases to be "unlawful" to become legitimate preservation.

I've noticed an uptick on reruns of old series and films, especially late seventies, eighties and nineties. On films, I'm seeing even earlier production, going back to the sixties, and even of minor cinema like italian, spanish and french.

I have no illusions that these older productions are probably cheaper to license than current day productions, but recent production gets aired once, maybe twice, and is just gone.

Some will argue this is due solely to most not having rewatching value, others that it is predicated on the shorter attention span audiences have nowadays. Other arguments exist.

Regardless of those, not seeing current series being re-run, for me, is a sign that there is no interest keeping those works around.

It would be extremely satisfying if somewhere in the future some of those productions had to be rescued from private copies, as it has happened before with others.

Does that mean if someone steals a car you're leasing that they did nothing wrong?

Firstly, I've never felt any need to justify piracy. If you can have something for free without harming anyone else then I just don't see the problem.

Secondly, I agree that piracy is not stealing.

That said, I dont really see how googles behavior here is an argument in favor of piracy. If you're stupid enough to "buy" a movie on a streaming platform and think it belongs to you then when they inevitably take it away that just means you're an idiot. It doesn't mean anything about piracy.