Online Piracy, is it justified in your view?

[QUOTE="helwa1988"]I think it is wrong to download a movie or song without paying for it. However. If you paid for a DVD you should be able to rip it to make a digital copy for personal use. And if i buy a movie from itunes i should be able to burn it to a DVD for my own use.Godly_Cure

Nope...neither is recording tv programmes/films, but we still do it.

[QUOTE="THE_DRUGGIE"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] It works wonders... and after all, what you can't destroy through force you can often starve or smother. Frame_Dragger

I've already got 5 hits on the filter as we speak.

Why need moderators when we have this?

Hope nobody blocks me :cry:

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="THE_DRUGGIE"]

I've already got 5 hits on the filter as we speak.

Why need moderators when we have this?

Hope nobody blocks me :cry:

[QUOTE="GamerLegend10"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] We don't! ... 3 hits here, I guess you got yours going before me!Frame_Dragger

Hope nobody blocks me :cry:

[QUOTE="GamerLegend10"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] We don't! ... 3 hits here, I guess you got yours going before me!Frame_Dragger

Hope nobody blocks me :cry:

Good point.

And thanks :)

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="GamerLegend10"]

Hope nobody blocks me :cry:

Good point.

And thanks :)

[QUOTE="helwa1988"]I think it is wrong to download a movie or song without paying for it. However. If you paid for a DVD you should be able to rip it to make a digital copy for personal use. And if i buy a movie from itunes i should be able to burn it to a DVD for my own use.Godly_Cure

[QUOTE="Godly_Cure"][QUOTE="helwa1988"]I think it is wrong to download a movie or song without paying for it. However. If you paid for a DVD you should be able to rip it to make a digital copy for personal use. And if i buy a movie from itunes i should be able to burn it to a DVD for my own use.helwa1988

[QUOTE="scorch-62"]Piracy is not theft. Piracy is piracy.airshocker

YES, yes it is

I think it's a load of crap that people think if they buy a product they are entitled to do whatever they want with it.

The same arguement GeoHotz had. When buying the ps3, you have to follow certain rules, just like when you buy a car. Or any other thing you can pirate with

[QUOTE="airshocker"][QUOTE="scorch-62"]Piracy is not theft. Piracy is piracy.scorch-62

Frequently without invasive DRM malware to boot.

to be fair im a huge cinema fan and go a lot, but if movie studios think that a film can come out in october in the states and inmarch in england and im not going to get a copy they are kidding themselves, add to that ALOT of films only get london cinema releases

i dont do it with music, i get some bootlegs but IMO you cant beat a having a proper cd

and i also have absolutely no problem watching football on a saturday afternoon on a stream no matter how illegal sky claim it is, i pay them enough, i have a season ticket go to a fair few away games, so on a saturday afternoon its illegal for me to watch villa play because i live in england whilst the rest of the world can watch them?

b*llocks to that

No, it clearly isn't.
That doesn't mean that the consumer is solely responsible for the piracy problem though!
I've stopped condemning pirates as the methods that developers/publishers use to counter piracy are extremely ridiculous. The lack of demo's, overpayed reviews, broken promises of developers, constant lies and broken releases aren't helping either.