Wow!!! Just.... Wow!!
You kids. The threadstarter is right. It's theft obviously and you are all thieves.
Originally posted by Da Pittman
Have I done it, many times but I also know it is illegal and if I get caught could get fined and or jail time. You want to do it then go for it, but don’t cry a river when you get caught. Is it less of a crime than stealing a car, IMO it is but it still is a crime.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I do not steal ANY music, movies, or other data. I have a download speed of 7MBps.(with power boost)I don't even use stolen study materials to study for my certifications.
My point is, I have the fasted Internet available in my area and all I do is surf the web with it. Sure I have downloaded a few things that were very large but they were just game demos and software demos.
My luck is, if I ever downloaded something illegal, I would be caught the first time, no joke. (I don't really believe in luck but I have no idea what to call it except for "bad luck.)
Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I don't see anything wrong with it.It is stealing and if the person gets caught well that person will know better.I would not do it myself but that is me.jm 🙂
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It's factually equal to robbing from a store, and anyone who says differently just because it's significantly less possible to get caught, is dumb.The adage of "I can't afford music/movies/anything copyrighted." is bs also.
The easier it is made to legally own things, the more people try to weasel. If only I had the power I'd slap some kind of legal penalty on every one of them.
-AC
Originally posted by Ushgarak
A lot of people say that the artists have enough money anyway, but actually it's the poor bastard studios that tend to lose out from piracy, and a lot of them have a surprisingly rocky time financially, meaning unemployment, market uncertainty etc.And it is stealing, yes, though the problem with all these anti-piracy adverts that make a direct link to stealing is that they are psychologically mis-directed. The reason people tend to not look at it that much like theft is because it is stealing that does not deprive the original product. If you steal, say, a car, the crime is that not only did you not pay for the car, but that the owner of the car is deprived of it. Doesn't happen with downloading tracks; effectively you created a new product rather than taking one from anyone.
I'm not saying it's not wrong, but people do think about it differently for that reason. A lot of British DVDs these days are prefaced with an irritating advert that says things like "You wouldn't steal a car etc. so why steal music?" and it's useless; virutally no-one wull equate the two activities for the reason I mention above.
All that said about the companies losing out... it's clear that the culture of how music works is changing. Companies offering cheap direct downloads are doing the very sensible thing, but it's possible we are approaching a future where information can be transferred so easily that trying to keep something like recorded music as a saleable commodity will become impossible. That might just be how it is.