Piracy.

[Apex]

Now, it would be totally pointless to have a poll asking if you have commited piracy or not, because face it, if you have been on the internet, and are between the ages of 12-30 You HAVE in some way commited an act of piracy.

So, why do we pirate?

FREE STUFF!!

It's a natural thing in life to take something that doesn't belong to you, it is an urge everyone has, whether or not they listen to that urge doesn't matter much anyways.

So, what do you pirate? be honest.

Popular things to pirate include:

Music
Movies
Programs
Video Games


*Do NOT post any links to pirated conntent, just discuss, there is nothing wrong with talking about it.*

Think piracy is wrong?

[Cosmos]

HELL NO. It's a great thing to do when you've gots no monies  :p

[Drace]

Yes, I commit piracy and no, I don't think it's wrong. Sure, it would be better if it doesn't happen but how do you get stuff then? Piracy is a form of word-around, which is the best advertisement anything can get.

See, it works like this:

Drace is searching dutch bands and finds a names. He downloads 3 albums of a band called "Elegy". Drace enjoys this music.

Moosetroop comes online and asks if I have some good music. I send Moosetroop a song by Elegy and he likes it. He then tells his friends. I told my friends and shared it with them. Thus, because one person liked it and made it available to more people, more people find it and might even buy their stuff.

Same with movies and games. If I really like something and I can afford to pay for it (DVDs, CDs, Games), I'll do it. But piracy is a form of "preview" that shows everything.

[plightofthepureblood]

My most blatant acts of piracy would have to be snes roms. This i am guilty of.

But I often argue that despite illegal downloading, i am not a music pirate.

I rarely download.
I download under two circumstances.

1- a friend tells me to check out a band. before i commit 10-35 dollars on one of their albums, I check them out. For 2 months.
If they suck, but only have one or two decent songs, I then resume stealing those decent songs and delete the old ones. One hit wonders suck, and deserve to be screwed, in my own opinion. Some would argue that, but its likely because they are either a sucky musician, or like a sucky musicians music. If you can only write one good song, you're 'suck-balls' in my books.

2-a Band Ive liked for a long time has a new album coming out. and they've "dramtically changed their style' this album. Im one of the pretentous ***hole music consumers, who often turns on a band after 'selling out'. this term is subjective, but im not spending the money on the album, until i know for fact that im not going to be embarrassed about owning the thing.

If the criteria are met I buy the music. I support the bands. I go to shows. I spread the gospel.

Being a metal fanatic, this is pretty much how its gotta be done. There are too many sub genres of metal to chance money on a new band. I dont want to own gay-emo metal. I dont want to buy the new Atreyu. i dont want to listen to a douche melodically sing about the smell of his girlfriend/boyfriends pillow and the apathy of his fathers peers.
I want to listen to balls out, blood and thunder metal. I want to hear about legendary beasts looking for prey. I want to hear some escapism.

That is my Piracy. some bands would call me a theif.
And others would call me informed.
I pay the money when its a product I like.
And im not paying for gay music.

[Moosetroop11]

What I don't like is when movies are being watched before they even come out. If it escalates the companies won't have as high budgets for films, etc.

[Almeidaboo]

Legally it´s wrong...but is the Law always right? Well, I do it a lot too, and I have the following opinion: if a artist is good enough, I´ll certainly buy his album, really. But if not, try harder, I´ll just get what´s good.

Plus, the overprice stuff a lot, and the world offers us things we can´t buy, hoping that we´ll break down and buy everything in range! SO, we gotta be smart and concentrate: do not buy. And more: never trust banks.

Okay, these last lines were kinda random, but came from the heart.

[Revolution911]

PIRATES!

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by Revolution911
PIRATES!

YAR!

[SaiKar]

Internet piracy is the most amusing thing to come out of the whole internet, at least to me. Suddenly infinine digital copies of anything are available to whoever wants it, and so far the authories have been totally unable to do anything. Sooner or later it will come to a boiling point.

Things weren't like that twenty years ago. The world is changing. Interesting times.

[Cosmos]

Pfft, harvey you act like you're actually THAT ol-- erm.. wait. <.<;;

[Djanki]

RPGMaker 2003 counts as piracy...so does the M.U.G.E.N. game I bought....

yoho, yoho, the pirates life for me.....sorta...-_-

[Razor]

Originally posted by Moosetroop11
What I don't like is when movies are being watched before they even come out. If it escalates the companies won't have as high budgets for films, etc.

Hells yeah. Snakes On A Plane in the cinema FTW!

Also, with music, I only download a -few- songs, and that's if I don't love the band. If I want to support a band, I'll buy their CDs.

Which is what annoys me (and Weregnome) is when someone's all like "Oh I totally love this band I downloaded all their albums" If you love something, why wouldn't you support it?

[charaman]

I received a notice of copyright infringement from comcast a few days ago. I'm calling it quits until I get FIOS.

[aboutasoandthis]

Almost half of the CDs I own are strait bootlegs. I even bought them while having a very interesting conversation with a policeman. :p

I pirate:
Music by an Artist
Game Music for My Game
Roms
Game Makers
Unzip Files

and nothing else. Even with music, I'll still pay money for a real album or a concert ticket.

See, piracy like this affects Hip-Hop more than Rock. That is why they are getting people's cases for sharing music. With Rock, they make their money with concerts. This is because rock is a little easier to perform and make a show out of than Hip-Hop.
All you do is just have the band play their songs. With Hip-Hop, it needs to be a non-stop party or they have to do something extra.

Most Rappers can't do **** when it comes to performing. The pop ones especially just go out and stand there doing the two-step. It takes some hard work, and some excellent music to do something extra. That's why you see so many becoming actors and working in advertising.

I buy real albums if I like the person. This ends up being mostly Underground Music and Legendary Albums. If I just want to listen to something because it's popular, I bootleg it. :p

[Razor]

I did once say that I would gladly pirate a bunch of hiphop CDs just so that artist gets less money. They don't deserve money if I'm going to have to suffer their crap.






...God damn it I hate Missy Elliot.