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Maybe you could fake your own death and move to a cabin in Montana?
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05-30-2023, 09:21 PM
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AFAIK it is. A local TV station in my hometown used to stream El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado from DVDs for a short while, even though the only TV network which had the streaming rights for those shows was SBT. |
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05-30-2023, 09:55 PM
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I suspect he meant streaming as a reciever when the physical media is in a different location.
It should be. It could be considered soft-core piracy as opposed to hard-core piracy.
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05-31-2023, 01:19 AM
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It's legal to view a film via any means if you own the license to that film. It's legal to backup a movie to which you own a license for, and it's legal to view the movie from backup.
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05-31-2023, 09:45 PM
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I suspect he meant streaming as a reciever when the physical media is in a different location.
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Such as asking someone to stream the movie through a Whatsapp video call? |
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10-05-2023, 07:49 PM
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My sister works for Google and says that schools are stupid for buying $1,000 laptops when they can do everything they need with a $400 chromebook.
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Has anyone heard how chromebooks worked out?
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10-05-2023, 07:51 PM
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I'm not even willing to try a Chromebook.
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10-05-2023, 07:56 PM
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$400 for a Chromebook sounds too expensive to me. As I said in your other laptop thread, I bought a latest gen i5 14" laptop for $280.
The excellent ThinkPad X1 Nano is going for $600.
https://slickdeals.net/f/16922272-le...-free-shipping
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05-22-2024, 08:55 PM
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I started getting "No signal" on my screen, so I bought a $30 new card off Amazon and it is slower than the one that came with my computer 8 years ago, but it works!
I received a partial refund for the refurbished video card I bought off eBay, which was much faster than stock, but stock still worked!
I felt aggravated attempting to troubleshoot and went to Costco to buy an ASUS ROG desktop they showed.
I looked at another warehouse and their site didn't show that computer there, but apparently they don't stock that in any store.
Their site showed 9 desktops, but only two were in-stock, and neither was worth buying.
With my partial refund, I have over $80 more than I did a week ago, but I would have rather had the time.
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06-01-2024, 06:40 AM
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Nowadays laptops tend to outsell desktops for a considerable margin. Nowadays I mostly see modern desktops at corporative environments.
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