Every one pirates stuff and all the entertainment industries are still filthy stinking rich so I don't really care that I'm nicking something from them. If I really like an artist/developer/director/etc. I will buy their work, though.
Every one pirates stuff and all the entertainment industries are still filthy stinking rich so I don't really care that I'm nicking something from them. If I really like an artist/developer/director/etc. I will buy their work, though.
Y'ar, I used to pillage and sail the skies, but then I ran out of crystals to power the engine core so I be grounded with all ye land-lubbing scum.
I'd but the works of the artists that I really like, but I don't know where to get any of Ариа's CDs short of eBay. I've never seen Megaherz or Eisbrecher (though I may be able to find them if I keep looking around more). Rammstein is no problem at all, but I just don't like the idea of having only 5 CDs, and all from just one band. And, of course, the only Apocalyptica CD I can find around here is Worlds Collide (I suppose neo-classical isn't too popular around my area).Originally Posted by Moon Rabbits
My music is in short supply. Piracy is the only logical option.
I'm a pirate and a thief and I enjoy it. I guess there's not really much guilt to taking what doesn't belong to you if all it takes is a simple download link; there's no real visible effect that can be seen that you are taking from someone else, especially in the case of file sharing. I'd have more guilt over shoplifting when I was a little kid than downloading anything over the internet.
Not to say I don't ever buy things (I know I really don't like downloading books as it doesn't feel the same) but if stuff like games and so forth can be emulated; or music can be downloaded, then I will more often than not do so.
Also, YouTube - You Are A Pirate (Lazy Town)
One US dollar approximately equals 5.5 Danish crowns - that doesn't change anything, though.. a video game still costs $100, or around £50 for you British people out there.
.. And Mirage, piracy is stealing!
I suppose I am a thief, but I don't download much to begin with; no music, no games and no movies. An exception to that are some older ROMs that I sometimes play. But even then I try to buy the real game if it's possible.
I used to download some music, but never much. The only thing I do download are episodes of TV series. The reason for that is that I hate having to watch them on German TV for the simple fact that I enjoy them in their original version. If there's a DVD I'd buy it, but often there isn't yet and I just want to watch it. When it comes out on DVD I often buy them afterwards, like I did with Battlestar Galactica. But I will download season 4 of that again before I have a chance of buying the DVD. So, I don't have a bad conscience about my behavior.
It's weird, because that was actually on yesterday.
....I mean, Lazy Town sucks!
I download music and tv shows. Mostly tv shows, because I miss them when they are on. But once a DVD is released of said tv show, I buy it. Software though, I buy all my software. I have legal versions of 3ds max, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
You hold my heart in your manly hands I wanna feel the throb of your handsome gland. I wanna hold you tight like a newborn kitten, against my flesh like a cashmere mitten. Tickly tick, I'm makin' skin bump heaven and all the way down it's lookin' cleanly shaven. Prickety pricks, it's stubble on stubble I better slow down or I'm in real trouble. Want you, touch you, feel you, taste you! Knick knack whacky whack 'till I see the man stew. spin you around let me see that hole! I'm a tunnelin' in a like a short hair mole. Once I'm inside I'm gonna leave a trace, half in there and half on that face! One finger, two finger, there fingers gone! Mano a mano I love you John!
Check my first post...
So I guess if I go to the library and photocopy a few pages out of an encyclopedia, I'm stealing those pages?
I'm fairly sure they see it as you stealing the money that you should have paid for using the photocopier.
The key word is library.. you are supposed to borrow stuff there, and whether or not you photocopy some pages or copy it in any other way doesn't make it illegal. - and it can't really be compared to piracy.. at least, that's what I think.So I guess if I go to the library and photocopy a few pages out of an encyclopedia, I'm stealing those pages?
Hate that advert. The last time I went to the cinema they showed that annoying 'DON'T BE A KNOCK-OFF NIGEL' advert and it was followed by an advert for some widescreen television. Because I'm a jerk, I rather loudly said to the person next to me "You know, that would be just perfect for watching a pirated DVD on" to the laughter, applause and cheers of the rest of the cinema patrons. Okay, perhaps not, but quite a few people laughed. But yeah, I do hate those adverts on legal DVDs. I bought the bloody DVD and watching that advert just makes me want to pirate stuff.
Be honest, you wouldn't.
I don't have much sympathy for the large money-making corporations to be honest and so I don't feel too guilty downloading stuff that's ridiculously overpriced anyway. I do think it's wrong, but it's just an easier way to get stuff sometimes that otherwise isn't generally available.
Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
So what if I give those pages to someone else? Is it stealing THEN?The key word is library.. you are supposed to borrow stuff there, and whether or not you photocopy some pages or copy it in any other way doesn't make it illegal. - and it can't really be compared to piracy.. at least, that's what I think.So I guess if I go to the library and photocopy a few pages out of an encyclopedia, I'm stealing those pages?
How about a novel? If I photocopy it at the library, am I stealing it? How about if I take it home and photocopy it? How about if I photocopy it, take it home, photocopy the photocopies and give them to everyone I know? At what point does it become stealing?
I don't care if I'm stealing when I pirate games, I don't have the money to buy lots and I have the means to get them for free. What people do is up to them, I don't care. =P
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