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by wehadfun 3892 days ago
In 1999 if you bought a CD and scratched it, your choices were buy another CD at full price or not listen to the music that you "bought the rights for". If we were buying rights the whole time then we should have been able to take scratched CDs to the record store and got a new copy for free or deeply discounted. Record companies/Hollywood didn't start claiming this rights crap until Shawn popularized separating content from physical media. If piracy is "just fucking theft" then every broken CD, tape, ... that record companies refused to replace is theft as well