Piracy?

[Skystone]

Im not argueing it for her to be arrested im argueing it because its just plain wrong, say for instance you make a song and decided to sell it as a single that - from the reaction of most of the people here - instead of buy the song they decided to download it, it equates to people takeing money out of your own wallet. its like haveing an awesome collection of rare games and haveing someone laugh at you because they never bothered to fork out the cash just to play it.

Piracy is illigal for a reason, technacally or not.

This is not necessarily true. If one downloads something that one would not have purchased, there is simply no loss; the quantity of money received by the composer/performer/record company does not change. If, however, one downloads something, likes it, and purchases a copy for the sake of supporting the author (or purchases a copy of some later work knowing, from piratical experience, that the artists produces good music), then more money can be made.

It's illegal because companies have a skewed conception of income and are money-hungry. We don't, for instance, see book publishers freaking out because it's legal to copy their works on the photocopiers that essentially every library has.

Now this is just plain wrong, Fileshareing is piracy for the simple fact that the person didnt buy the file, think about what would happen if more and more people shared, eventually nothing would be sold, therefore the product would stop getting made fileshareing will eventually lead to recession, jobs lost ect... its an endless spiral of recession, more people share less people pay prices raise so the product can make some profit, less people buy as item's become to expencive... dont you see this will happen the more people fileshare.

By the same logic: teaching is plain wrong for the simple fact that, if everyone became a teacher, stores would shut down, farmers wouldn't farm and we'd all die of starvation -- albeit in a fairly educated manner. We simply cannot state that something is wrong due to problems caused by a majority of people partaking of that action.

IMHO nothing does get done about it because if somthing was done then 90% of the virtual population would lhave to be arrested.

It's also not always illegal. It is technically legal in Canada, due to a special tax on blank CDs , to download music or acquire it from peer-to-peer networks (to the great consternation of the RIAA).

So, it depends. Where are you from? If it is piracy, then it may not be, depending on where you live, illegal piracy (and 'legal' piracy is a slightly odd term, is it not?). But the bigger and far more important question, as you seem to have to be asking for a moral judgment, is whether it's justifiably illegal in countries like the US.