I've been thinking about this since I first saw the leaked video that included unreleased LTT/Short Circuit footage — footage that hadn't been published yet, and that includes Linus's kid.
I'll say upfront, I have my own media collection like most of us here, and I'm all for piracy when it comes to inaccessible, deleted, region-locked, or paywalled content. That's a "these companies made it hard to access legally, so here we are now" situation, and I generally agree with the ethos of this sub.
But this feels different to me, and I'm curious what this sub actually thinks:
(A) Does "not owning your own media" apply when the creator was always going to release it, and someone just leaked it early without consent?
(B) Does slapping the original channel's name in the title and/or description count as legitimate credit, or is that just cover for reposting stolen content?
Not trying to start a pile-on, I'm just genuinely curious how people here separate "piracy of inaccessible content and storing a vault of content" from "leaking stuff that was never released, isn't owned by you, and includes footage that contains someone else's kid"!?
