• Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
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    16 hours ago

    Oh yes. In the early days of pirating, it was illegal to possess MP3s of music you didn’t ‘own’ copies of.

    There used to also have been and still is, legal fighting about the legality of having copies of games no longer in circulation. We have been seeing it now where Nintendo aims at people hosting file copies of some of their IPs.

    They’re always going to be illegal to have laying around your computer, regardless of your stance. Unless you buy said MP3s from something like Apple’s store or Amazon.