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Would you like to have someone come into your house and take your fridge, or your stereo, or your bed, your couch, etc. That is the same thing. Stealing. If you do you are a thief. No ifs and buts about it.
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[3 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThis comment has been moderated down. (Show Comment)
Yes it is. The artists that took the trouble to make the music you are steeling isn't getting paid from you for enjoying the fruits of his labor. Do you work for nothing. If you say yes you are a liar.
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[3 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThis comment has been moderated down. (Show Comment)
There is no misunderstanding here. If it cost 1 cent of 1 dollar, you are taking something that isn't yours and you aren't paying for it. You are a thief. It that wasn't so, the recording and film companies wouldn't be taking any actions to prevent people of your ilk from ripping them off.
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[3 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyFor one thing thief waugs, the subject here is not file sharing. The question is pirating movies and music. What are you trying to do, cover up the fact that you are a thief by now calling your pirating a different name? I sure hope this isn't a sign that Canada is ready to be flushed down the toilet. The only thing any of the canadian responses say is that they are pirating. And by the way thief waugs, are you the pussy that downed all my comments? Are you trying to hide something? Does the truth hurt?
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[2 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThe way Digital media is evolving. Pirating video and music will turn into a promotional tool.
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It's still thievery.
In someways yes and no. Watch Piracy is good? This presentation explains the future of video digital content.
I normally pirate music and if i like it ill buy the album to hear more of the artists music but i just think pirating movies is wrong... go to the movies with a friend and have a good time, who cares if its $8(thats how much it costs here)
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[1 point] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThis comment has been moderated down. (Show Comment)
You are a thief too.
Wingnutt, I don't disagree. We are all thieves. However the question isn't if downloading pirated intellectual property is illegal, the question is if doing so is wrong. This is a value judgment. I personally don't think it's wrong.
With the growth of technology selling data is getting to be obsolete and fairly ridiculous. In a non-networked, non-digital society it was still possible to sell data because you could never make perfect duplicates. However was it ever really right to sell data. Isn't a free flow of data vital to the continued advancement of technology and knowledge in general?
You may say now, "But music isn't data it's entertainment". To which i respond that it is both. Because without the exchange of knowledge that occurs through listening to and partaking in music what would have influenced each musician to expand the boundaries of music?
People are going to make music and movies no matter what. It's just people passion. When you do something you love you can't stop. But if they intend to do these things as a career they will simply have to find a new way to monetize their commodities. Because, to make analogy between Schroedinger's Cat and the *AAs' business models, the box is open and the cat is dead.
Great answer guydmann, but that isn't the answer to the question asked. There is a big difference in what you say and what the question asks. "Is it wrong to pirate movies and music?" What is a pirate? What did and what do pirates do? What is it called when one takes something that is for sale and doesn't pay for it? I say again; if it isn't thievery, why are the music and movie companies trying so very hard to stop it or to catch the ones doing it? Every once in a while you can read in the papers that they caught someone.
"If it isn't thievery, why are the music and movie companies trying so vary hard to stop it or catch the ones doing it?"
Because they are losing money. But the point is that they are middle men they don't really produce anything.
But think about that same argument from another perspective. I imagine that you probably know that in Afghanistan it is illegal to convert from Islam to any other religion, this crime is punishable by death. So if so many people are trying so hard to keep Muslims from converting to other religions then converting to other religions must be wrong. Same argument different parameters.
You are on drugs, aren't you?