Why would the government keep that a secret?
That’s right, I forgot. It’s legal to make a backup of the DVD, but it is illegal to bypass the DRM.
But there’s some legal loophole where unless they actually witness you ripping the disc, they can’t prove that you bypassed the DRM, so they can’t really do much about that. So, it’s not exactly “legal” so much as it is “not illegal”.
In the United States, this is perfectly legal. It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.
I wish there was a Mac version of this
I just binged Game of Thrones, so now I am an expert!
Sadly, I can’t see it. But I’m glad you can.
schmear
I see you, bagel slut ;)
What I can imagine is a fair and equitable ecology of media sharing. While some commercial producers - as well and indie ones - would offer their content for free linking (perhaps with a daily/weekly quota), others may work out mass licensing deals with the platform owner. , Even many more others may work out, individualized compensation agreements that fall somewhere in between.
So, FB would pay an annual licensing fee to all of the content producers whose content it profits from.
FB is already built on hundreds of more complex systems that the one required for tracking license payment obligations.
floo
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The word “modern “means different things in different contexts. This comic is making a joke about mixing them.
For example, in the context of Art History, both of the terms Modern and Modernism are typically capitalized to make the distinction between the colloquial form.