that’s now how it works. the law does not exist to protect you; it exists to make you tolerate your exploitation and feel like it’s fair.
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MHanak@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hold on i just realised
Some arbitration clauses work both ways, meaning disney can’t sue you just as much as you can’t sue them
So in theory if you signed up for a free trial or something, pirating (and distributing) any disney content would be absolutely legal
primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 3 months ago
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 3 months ago
I wouldn’t even say that. The law exists to protect the powerful and doesn’t care if it feels fair to you or not.
primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 3 months ago
right but it can’t protect the powerful without gaslighting you, because the direct use of violence for control is really really fucking inefficient, and the use of pure terror for control isn’t much better. you need to build the prison in your prisoners’ heads, y’know?
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 months ago
That they have a specific exception for IP tells me all what they really think about their customers.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
That’s why they pay the lawyers
JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Probably not, they say that you agree to settle your disputes with x corporation through arbitration, nothing about x corporation’s disputes with you. Don’t test the most expensive lawyers in the world, especially when they get to pick the arbitor.
MHanak@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am not saying that’s a good idea, but i know that for example discord’s arbitration clauze explicitly states that it works both ways, so it’s not impossible that disney’s does too