DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Gun shops have to perform background checks (at least in the US). So not as easy as just stealing all of the guns from the gun shop!
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Gun shops have to perform background checks (at least in the US). So not as easy as just stealing all of the guns from the gun shop!
Irrelevant.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Gun shops have to perform background checks (at least in the US). So not as easy as just stealing all of the guns from the gun shop!
Irrelevant.
Not at all irrelevant. You're stating its OK to do one thing, but not the other and the reversing the statement in the following post.
FFS
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
The offset to this is that the box maker is selling a product, and has almost certainly shown the intention of enabling people to steal.
That is the issue. Any conflation of that fact is just putting rose colored glasses on.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
Again, the box doesn't do anything illegal until YOU tell it to. You can also tell it to NOT do illegal things.
That they are marketing it to criminals isn't illegal either. Nothing they are actually doing is illegal. Nothing at all, until a criminal manually makes/tells it to.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
Again, the box doesn't do anything illegal until YOU tell it to. You can also tell it to NOT do illegal things.
That they are marketing it to criminals isn't illegal either. Nothing they are actually doing is illegal. Nothing at all, until a criminal manually makes/tells it to.
Enabling a person to perform a crime, means intent and makes that person an accomplice.
Nothing else you state can refute that. Just because someone may buy this box and never steal content doesn't mean that the 100's or 1000's of others who do steal content are right for doing what they are easily made capable of.
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Promoting an act of crime (inciting violence etc) is as much a crime as performing the act yourself.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
Again, the box doesn't do anything illegal until YOU tell it to. You can also tell it to NOT do illegal things.
That they are marketing it to criminals isn't illegal either. Nothing they are actually doing is illegal. Nothing at all, until a criminal manually makes/tells it to.
Enabling a person to perform a crime, means intent and makes that person an accomplice.
Nothing else you state can refute that. Just because someone may buy this box and never steal content doesn't mean that the 100's or 1000's of others who do steal content are right for doing what they are easily made capable of.
You're mixing laws together and coming up with your own opinions.
There is no law in place making this box illegal.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Close, but I'm trying to think of something a little better... hmm..
A chainsaw makes access to Dustin's house easier... chainsaw the door down.. I think we should make chainsaws illegal.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Gun shops have to perform background checks (at least in the US). So not as easy as just stealing all of the guns from the gun shop!
Irrelevant - Irrelevant...
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
Again, the box doesn't do anything illegal until YOU tell it to. You can also tell it to NOT do illegal things.
That they are marketing it to criminals isn't illegal either. Nothing they are actually doing is illegal. Nothing at all, until a criminal manually makes/tells it to.
Enabling a person to perform a crime, means intent and makes that person an accomplice.
Nothing else you state can refute that. Just because someone may buy this box and never steal content doesn't mean that the 100's or 1000's of others who do steal content are right for doing what they are easily made capable of.
You're mixing laws together and coming up with your own opinions.
There is no law in place making this box illegal.
But there are laws in place which exist to prevent theft. IE Laws which state if I plan to break into your house, that just the act of planning it means I can go to prison.
Same thing here, it's planned that the device can do illegal things, thus makes this worth taking to court.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court.
No, the ease is what makes tricking people into thinking this is bad, and therefore worth taking to court.
Again, DragonBox themselves didn't do anything illegal. They are the Car in your getaway driver example.. they are not the driver themselves.
It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
You're right, that's why the businesses are doing it.. but again, that doesn't make it right. DragonBox just made a tool. The fact that the tool makes it easy doesn't make them doing something illegal. just like making slim jim's doesn't make the company liable to crooks using them to steal cars - damn it's easy with a slim jim (or at least used to be).
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
No, the ease is what makes tricking people into thinking this is bad, and therefore worth taking to court.
Again, DragonBox themselves didn't do anything illegal. They are the Car in your getaway driver example.. they are not the driver themselves.
DragonBox is literally the car, it makes the get-away possible and substantially easier than having to run on foot from the cops!
Not that cars are illegal, but the intent of use is what is illegal. A knife is no more a weapon until you intend it to be.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court.
No, the ease is what makes tricking people into thinking this is bad, and therefore worth taking to court.
Again, DragonBox themselves didn't do anything illegal. They are the Car in your getaway driver example.. they are not the driver themselves.
It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
You're right, that's why the businesses are doing it.. but again, that doesn't make it right. DragonBox just made a tool. The fact that the tool makes it easy doesn't make them doing something illegal. just like making slim jim's doesn't make the company liable to crooks using them to steal cars - damn it's easy with a slim jim (or at least used to be).
Intent at the time of use / design. A slimjim wasn't intended to make car thefts easy. That was a side effect of the tool and people with bad intentions getting a hold of them.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
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Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
The offset to this is that the box maker is selling a product, and has almost certainly shown the intention of enabling people to steal.
That is the issue. Any conflation of that fact is just putting rose colored glasses on.
This is the ONLY possible issue - is it illegal to tell people that a product can be used illegally as a way to advertise it? that seems likely. So the question is - did they cross that line?
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Can a road be used for good? Yes
Can a road be used for crime? YesCan DragonBox be used legally? Yes
Can DragonBox be used illegally? YesChange out road with car. Same result.
It's the person committing the crime, not the object.
Let's take your example 1 step further.
Can a gun be used for good? Yes
Can a gun be used for bad? YesCan a gun kill a person? No
Can a person wielding a gun kill a person? YesIf you make a gun easier to wield, then it's easier for people to be killed.
yet guns aren't illegal.
But selling stolen weapons is illegal!
Dragonbox isn't selling stolen content. Irrelevant.
You're right, its selling easy access to stolen content.
No, it's no more easy access than Windows or Ubuntu provides, or uTorrent or whatever.
Really, no more easy? Find me a PPV UFC fight tonight in 4K HD that I can easily just click "play" and not need to do anything else.
No, that would be illegal.
That is what this box offers.
So where is your argument here?
Many things offer that... the ease of which things can happen doesn't matter.
Yes it does. The ease is what makes this worth bringing to court. It's the ease of theft on potentially very massive scales that have businesses suing.
Again, the box doesn't do anything illegal until YOU tell it to. You can also tell it to NOT do illegal things.
That they are marketing it to criminals isn't illegal either. Nothing they are actually doing is illegal. Nothing at all, until a criminal manually makes/tells it to.
Enabling a person to perform a crime, means intent and makes that person an accomplice.
Nothing else you state can refute that. Just because someone may buy this box and never steal content doesn't mean that the 100's or 1000's of others who do steal content are right for doing what they are easily made capable of.
Then we better put you in jail - Dustin.. because if you helped one person get on the internet, you enabled them to perform a crime.
