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by chme 592 days ago
> “The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

So a bad critique of the movie, might also reduce people's desire to pay to see the movie. So with this kind of reasoning any information you give others about a movie (or other copyrightable work) could be problematic. Pretty strange stuff...

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Ye I read that. It is just that it is so absurd that I hardly believe it.

I did some searching and I got no result from news orgs I recognized. But like, it seemed correct.

Then again, if I remember correctly Nintendo tried to go after videos of people playing their games at some point. I guess it makes sense from that perspective.