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by kasztelan_ 1298 days ago
>Importantly, this should also be seen as precedence for private piracy and that people with thousands of movies on their harddrives naturally aren't liable for the sum of their retail price.

I don't think that holds. They installed all this software automatically, when you download movies you have to manually action each one. I mean, unless people are downloading movie packs from torrent sites these days or whatever?

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In the past I have routinely automated PtP downloads...
Automation is merely a tool. There's little difference between running a script and clicking "download" blindly a thousand times.