Quote Originally Posted by Ouch! View Post
While I agree that a change in media distribution needs to happen, I also think people need to stop kidding themselves and acknowledge that pirating is illegal, whatever justification one might be able to provide. Piracy is not even an effective means of civil disobedience.

Just accept that it's illegal and move on. People need to stop trying to justify the position; whether the alternative is reasonable or not, theft is still theft. Don't hide behind other things to try to pass the activity as anything else. Just deal with it and move on. That means accepting the consequences.
Yeah, exactly. We're kidding ourselves trying to think downloading bootlegged movies and TV shows is somehow legal. I get sad when these sites get taken down because then I can't get free stuff, but I'm not going to get up in arms about it.

I just hope the people behind these sites don't get in too much trouble, because I don't think the entertainment industry is suffering as much from this as they might think. At least in my own experience I only download things that I would never pay for anyway. If there is a movie I really want to see I'll go see it in the theater. Taking these sites down just means I'm not going to see their products at all, which could hurt them in the sense that if I liked what I saw I may be more inclined to buy it in the future.

But yeah, definitely illegal, and until they come up with a new cheap way to distribute this stuff it will always go on. Piracy will always exist when there are things to pirate.