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I don't remember the last time i paid full price for a movie or any other type of digital content, besides my xbox :P.

100% bought and paid for.
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I pay $30 for a month membership to any one of the top porn sites and then download HD quality video from a server that's always fast because its only available to paid members. Why waste hours of my time (which is far too valuable) searching around for free stuff of questionable quality when a small fee gets me exactly what I need?
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have you watched youtube videos of movie trailers or music videos or music tracks not uploaded by the artist their studio or a company like mtv/vevo/etc ?

cuz that's illegal too

hell using a vcr/dvdr/pvr/ripping ur own cds is/was considered illegal too

Vette Dood,

I'm reposting your comment on my g+ and facebook.
I'll keep it anon though. k?

so answer the question then, do you ever look at or listen to pirated material?

its just really hard to believe someone in this day and age pirates nothing from the internet.

This RS advertisement made me laugh...

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Did I not just say everything I have was 100% bought and paid for?

Content these days is dirt cheap. Less than $15 per month for my sirius subscription and I can stream it at work or home to boot. If I hear a song I like it's $0.99 to $1.29 to buy a copy. I don't have time to search the internet to find a song when I can purchase it immediately for a dollar. And I know for sure the version I buy will have the album art and all the correct tags so its gets categorized properly in my library. All achieved by a single click. If an album is worth purchasing (easily determined by reading a few reviews from people that I trust or from friends) then I'll buy the CD.

I PVR everything I watch as I'm never around to view it live when it's actually on (with the exception of some sports). Skipping commercials? Oh yeah, that's a huge inconvenience to press FF for a couple seconds.

Blockbuster movies or ones worth keeping I'll buy the Blu-Ray. Other movies I'll just rent and watch once. Crappy movies? Can't say I've ever really watched that many as they have these things called "movie reviews" from sites like "Rotten Tomatoes" where you can find out if something is worth renting. People who use the excuse "I don't want to spend money on something and find out I don't like it" are full of shit. It's easy these days to find out if a movie is any good before you decide to rent it.

The same goes with software. "I want to try it before spending $$$ dollars and finding out I don't need it." Again, any software worth owning will have numerous reviews done by major websites. Further, pretty much all software is available as a 30 day trial.


You say it's hard to believe someone doesn't pirate from the internet. I say it's hard to believe there are so many thieves who make up countless lame excuses to justify stealing.

U made it sound so easy lol. What aobut moves, songs or TV shows thats not from NA (say anywhere in Asia) so you rather have to pay a perium for it, wait a year or two before it comes out here legally (Fairchild ><) or would you rather download it online ilgeally.

I am sorry but I am not going to wait for a year for it to come out.

Just singing the Happy Birthday song in public is copyright infringement as well.

Good on Dangonay for being 100% legit.

There are many instances where people may accidentally stumble across copyrighted stuff and not realize it... Ie. youtube. Whether piracy actually affects the industry or not, it will never be able to prevent it, even to a small extent. People who do will do, people who don't, won't. I do hear a lot about how people WILL buy material from artists they support. The stuff that they DL for free would be things they would have never bought in the first place, therefore, not making much of a difference.

Agreed. I pay for my music and most games now that iTunes and Steam is around.

True that it's tough to price match free, but price in dollars is only one component. I buy my songs off iTunes because I know it's high quality, free of defects, and saves me the trouble of sourcing it elsewhere. I got sick of setting up and downloading off eMule and having to download five copies just to get one that didn't have weird clicks in it or choppy sound. For a dollar this is more than worth it for me.

I also started buying games off Steam because it's reasonably priced, and they provide a quality service where I can get at my games any time I like, without having to find the install CDs. I've even re-purchased several games I used to own but couldn't find anymore. Plus now I don't waste all my time finding a decent torrent, then dicking around with cracks and blocking hosts and all that shit. I like the fact that I'm supporting the developers too. I have family and friends who slave away at writing code to make these games for us. They deserve to eat too.

I think the key to stopping piracy is to make paying for content more desirable than stealing it.

Hahaha, just last night I downloaded Transformers, horrible bosses and the green latern.

Honestly, good for you that you spent you hard earned money on movies, but please stop acting like the jews that come to my door telling me to convert, it ain't gonna happen. If I wanted to pay for shit, I would have by now.

You can see the generation gap in this thread. Chances are if you're born after the late-80's, downloading has just been a way of life. That generation grew up with the internet and all of it's good and bad sides. Those of us that grew up with Nixon, Carter and Reagan in charge had a different way of life. Yes, piracy was still around (recording TV shows on VHS or trying to catch a good song on the radio and taping it onto cassette), but it wasn't as main stream as it is now. Today you go online and are bombarded with ways of "cheating" the system. P2P/Torrent sites are everywhere and very few people think anything of it.

There's an argument people use when defending sharing torrents... "I'm not pirating such-and-such software, I'm simply sharing it. What's the difference between this and lending the CD to a friend?" Well, lending a movie or cd to a friend to view has a far less impact than the hundreds or thousands of people who are currently connected to your uTorrent program, leeching the same data off of you. You can also argue that the many companies out there aren't helping the cause, what with selling bulk packs of dual layer DVD's, rewritable Bluray discs, and other forms of mass storage intended to store large amounts of data. After all, what's the point of Maxell selling a 100pk of CD-R's in major retail stores if you're not a musician wanting to hand out a bunch of demo tracks? That's obviously not the main market they're aiming at, though I'm sure if you ask them they'll sing a different story.

I'll admit right now that I've downloaded some shows and music. Certain TV shows simply just aren't available on Canadian channels, nor can you purchase NTSC-formatted discs. And there are plenty of bands out there that don't have their tracks available on iTunes or other similar sites.

But... on the other hand, I'll go out and buy the movies I like, I'll buy the songs I enjoy on iTunes, and I'll buy entire seasons of TV shows if I feel the need to catch up or review older episodes.

Certain people, however, are making downloading an even broader shade of grey. Various bands have legally put their entire new album up for free on different P2P. Because a broad statement is being made that any form of downloading media is illegal, does this now make downloading Radiohead's "In Rainbows" illegal as well?

Seriously, when was the last time a Jewish person came to your front door and attempted to convert you?

The problem is that lots of people still will download stuff for free, even if it belongs to their favourite band or happens to be the movie they enjoyed most all year. It's one thing to say that people who download would never have bought it in the first place, partially because a portion of it is true... but there still is a rise in monetary loss from those who otherwise would have bought it.



Which brings me to something else: TV Shows. Television series live and die based on ratings. The greatest show ever could be released, but if the majority of viewers simply decide to download the episodes instead of watching it live (or even PVR'ing it), you can guarantee the network will pull said series after seeing their ratings hit only half a million viewers every week.

+1000

except for expecting east coast feed on your television shows

I agree. It's a very VERY tough law to impose, or better yet, enforce. But I have to say, in the end, if it is illegal and you do it, you risk the consequences.

That is a good point regarding TV shows. Do you know how ratings work? My Receiver is always on and is always left on the last channel that I was watching. Does this mean it shows up as me watching this channel for X amount of hours? I always wondered this, as regardless of whether your TV is on or not, if the receiver is on, it would show shaw or whoever the SP is that you are watching that channel, does it not?


lol, you're an idiot, it's Jehovah's witness not Jews.. So your argument just went to shit.

Nielsen ratings are collected from a random group of people who agree to have boxes attached to their TVs. They use these to collect statistics and extrapolate based on expected viewership.

may not be Jewish per say but you get the idea. dangonay is just butt hurt because he has wasted tons of money on movies and music.

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aside from the FBI/MPAA rating screen all the annoying trailers/what not are skippable on blu-ray...well at least on the ps3

^^ not on all discs

it depends on whoevers putting the disc together i guess

wait people still torrent movies? that was like 2 years ago fad, now with sites like icefilms doesnt everyone just stream hd/dvd quality shows/movies?

different strokes for different folks, I like to download movies but stream shows.