Is Piracy Right?

[jaguarr]

*illegally downloads Wilhelm*

Hah! Take that!

jag

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

oooh, that buffering feels nice.

 

[BRUTAL]

I'm leaving before any streaming happens...

 

[jaguarr]

You're enjoying it too much. *deletes Wil from the system*

jag

 

[Addendum]

You're enjoying it too much. *deletes Wil from the system*

jag

Remotely Queued

 

[imdaly]

*illegally downloads Wilhelm*

Hah! Take that!

jag

Don't do it! It's infested with viruses and worms!

 

[jaguarr]

Don't do it! It's infested with viruses and worms!

Oh, noes111!!!11 *contracts cyberclap*



jag

 

[dark_b]

it always makes me smile. because hte people who leak the movies on hte internet never get mention.
i am talking about people who work in those studios and leak the dvd on the internet.
it is not normal that the dvd's are on the internet 1 month before the official realese. the same with the music. how can the album be on the internet before the official realese?

but of course noone mentions those guys. bravo.

p.s. why are they in hollywood even mad? its not thei fault that they are complete idiots. i mean who the f.... makes a 200 milion comedy?(evan almighty) you are the idiot who made somethig wrong. now you will lose money. not because of those who download.

 

[thedeadite]

I'll easily admit i dl most of my music. I buy cds/vinyl also, but I mostly like to buy straight from the bands (at shows). This is mostly because I don't listen to mainstream music. I've been in several bands, and p2p sharing is the BEST way to get your name out there when you're an underground band.

 

[Deadpool876]

I can't believe Piracy still exists, dammit. Boarding ships, stealing, raping, and what have you. Governments should fight this evil with all their might even if a pirate looks like Keira Knightley! t:

Sorry, couldn't help it... Ofcourse Piracy's not right but there's so much gov't's can do. There are top priorities nowadays like terrorism, drugs, other major crimes. Simultaneous showings around the world of potential hit movies is a good idea. They should do that to tv shows as well. Jeez, if you have been to Asian countries like China, Malaysia, Philippines, and others, you'll see tons of pirated dvds of U.S. tv shows not just movies are rampant there.

 

[CyberFaust]

hahaha!
look, i just downloaded fear and loathing in las vegas, the movie and the book.
now, i will get teh dvd and the book next week because hunter s thompson is one of my top most favorite writers now, because i downloaded the book. Will, make sense of that.


every movie taht i download that is worth it's buck i go to the cinema to see and even buy the dvd, those taht don't make the cut: tough.


music double so, if i had cds with all the misic i have on my harddrive it would take up a important part of my room (with cd cases too) but the ones i really really like i do buy.
games, as much as i would love to buy i don't have the money so i pirate them, of that i am ashamed but i would buy them and when i have the money i do, that is why i have a original kotor 2 and halo etc.


pirating is a verry verry gray area and it depends only on the individual.

 

[Addendum]

The games I download are abandonware, roms (NES, SNES, Genesis, and the few games for the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance I like), and the games that the game makers make available for free (ZZT, Super ZZT, Bungie's Marathon Trilogy and their side-scroller Abuse), and some Doom wads

 

[Kahoot]

The games I download are abandonware, roms (NES, SNES, Genesis, and the few games for the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance I like), and the games that the game makers make available for free (ZZT, Super ZZT, Bungie's Marathon Trilogy and their side-scroller Abuse), and some Doom wads

I used to have a few Gameboy colour games but that was a long time ago. I used to like playing Pokemon on my PC and not my Gameboy for some reason.

Bungie's Marathon Trilogy is free!? Is it any good? Worth the download?

 

[Darkly Dexter]

it's not right, but it's necesary.

 

[Addendum]

Bungie's Marathon Trilogy is free!?

Yup

Is it any good?

Yup

Worth the download?

Yup

It's available here. Directions are simple and easy to follow. Just make sure you get the ones for Windows if you're not on a Mac.

 

[Kahoot]

Yup


Yup


Yup

It's available here. Directions are simple and easy to follow. Just make sure you get the ones for Windows if you're not on a Mac.

Macs are evil!

 

[The Kid]

Hell yeah, it's right.

How many companies are trying to sell crap nowadays and get away with it? best to test! best to test!

 

[AhabTheArab]

people are lumping everything together, creative juices are good and all, but sometimes people are very creative, put all the effort they can into it, but its still not that great. im not going to pay for something that i do not feel is worth the money, im no robin hood sticking it to the man so to speak, im strapped for cash and have been burned before by 'creative people.'

but i do not steal, when are we going to realize this, i share. youtube gets music videos on there, and with mozilla i can download them onto my computer, is this stealing? see i thought it was just a neat feature to download some amateur porn or to get that sweet looking kings of leon music video.

and i agree will, to a degree, with you about kahoot making a perfect nazi. he totally did not get what you were saying but, i didnt expect him to. i break laws left and right, i drank when i was underage, bought tobacco underage, speed over the speed limits (even in construction zones *GASP*), i tear that stupid little tag off my mattress, hell i even bought some booze for some underagers. laws are full of gray areas.

ive got this sweet ass site that has all the cartoons/movies/tv shows you could want to watch, and its perfectly legal cuz they just borrow it from other sites streaming it, but i don't want you right wingers to take it down.

share on.

 

[Ice-man]

Honestly who gives a ****, i watch tons of free DVD quality movies, and download mass amounts of music, i cant afford to buy all of those things, and with me i watch the movie maybe once or twice and thats it, no point in spending money for something i know i can have for free.

Im a pirate, and id like to keep it that way, government cant control what i do on my computer on my own time.

 

[Kahoot]

Honestly who gives a ****, i watch tons of free DVD quality movies, and download mass amounts of music, i cant afford to buy all of those things, and with me i watch the movie maybe once or twice and thats it, no point in spending money for something i know i can have for free.

Im a pirate, and id like to keep it that way, government cant control what i do on my computer on my own time.

^ lol, so the government can't say that you can't use your computer in your own time to hack into the Pentagon and (if hollywood is to be believed) fire some nukes?

I shoulda stopped after the word Pentagon lol.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

No.But others will do it anyway.

 

[WalterKovacs]

Wether or not it works, that is simply how supply and demand works. If I go to best buy and theyre selling a The WHo CD for 40 bucks and i can get the same thing on the internet for free, i am going to be inclined to get it the same way i would be inclined to get a $29 version. They supply what we demand. Plus it shouldnt be illegal if youre sharing the movie. I mean, my friend came over and watched pulp fiction with me. he shouldnt have to pay to see the movie, thats not illegal. so it shouldnt be illegal if a guy sends a bunch of people online copies of knocked-up via the internet.
plus, a real artist cares about its effect on the audience, not the money. If you made a song about getting through death or mourning and the singer really intended the song to help other people, and you can download that music for free on the internet because you cant go out and buy the CD but your dog just died, you should download it.

 

[Harlekin]

Is piracy right? No. Do I care? No.

 

[onejeremytogo]

They only get paid more than they used to in correlation with the increase in the cost of living/inflation. Comparatively speaking, they really don't get paid more than they used to percentage wise. And most of the actual musicians and recording artists that make those albums still only get $.3-5 cents per album sold if they are lucky. Very lucky. The creative people who make records, including the bands, the sound engineers, the editors, the album cover designers and so forth are not the ones who make a lot of money off of a record. 95% of it goes right back into the pockets of the big corporations that own the recording contracts. This is the very reason that many of the indy labels even exist.

jag

While I appreciate your use of the word "correlation," I completely disagree with you. Yes there may be a rise in the cost of living/inflation and yes, this may balance out a percentage of the increase, however, CD's have doubled in price since the mid to late 90's from 10 to 20 bucks. So if this percentage you speak of is double then why has everything else not doubled due to inflation? A candy bar (here anyway) has gone from 50 cents to .69 cents. That's a 19 percent increase...not 100%. Movie tickets, here anyway, have gone up only a buck fifty. Thats not double. I could go on forever. Case in point... DOUBLE is not inflation. I think they should target the people producing the software and not the people downloading. Not to mention, if a CD didn't have at LEAST 3 songs on it that I liked...I didn't waste my money and the same holds true today. If I like three songs I'll buy it..in the mean time, my downloading one song from an artist isn't changing the way I spend my money at all. They never would have gotten it to begin with.

 

[Matt]

Its not really right, but it is not nearly as crippling to the movie/music industry as they would like you to believe. In fact, they use it as an excuse to raise costs so who can blame people for stealing it?