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Piracy- Your take on it
- Thread starter Solstice
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Phantom
Uh, I didn't do it.
Should this be in Debate?
*Stops from singing "A Pirate's Life"*
In all seriousness I assume we are talking like pirating DVD's, or do you mean actual high seas swashbuckling?
On like pirating DVD's I think it's illegal, therefore wrong.
If you mean high seas swashbuckling pirates. I say aarrgh.
*Stops from singing "A Pirate's Life"*
In all seriousness I assume we are talking like pirating DVD's, or do you mean actual high seas swashbuckling?
On like pirating DVD's I think it's illegal, therefore wrong.
If you mean high seas swashbuckling pirates. I say aarrgh.
Ether's Bane
future Singaporean
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I try not to, but it's pretty much a necessity for me because:
1) DS games are freaking expensive here (I use an R4).
2) Not all CDs make it here.
3) Not all original-form DVDs make it here.
If I want this stuff, I don't have a choice, but I limit myself when it comes to this stuff. I would definitely prefer not to, but...
1) DS games are freaking expensive here (I use an R4).
2) Not all CDs make it here.
3) Not all original-form DVDs make it here.
If I want this stuff, I don't have a choice, but I limit myself when it comes to this stuff. I would definitely prefer not to, but...
Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
Furiianda
DELICIOUS!
Like, uh... *squint*
Like rock-ground says, many things don't make it over here and there's no choice but to pirate if you want to experience it!
Oh, well, okay, not many but a few things I care about.
(That goes for music, games, and... well I don't really bother with television/movies anyway)
That said I've pirated a few things that were probably available. *scratches head* Maybe. For games I never felt too bad about it because past a certain date only the store (who sells stuff way overpriced ololol) would get any money from me, but hey, I guess it's still horrible and wrong...
A few years on I have a bit of a better appreciation for the industry and blah blah and I totally haven't pirated anything for ages that would have been available normally, or something.
And the music, gee, I never really... I mean the stuff... does it even come on CDs? I don't even know, I like, take things from youtube, and that's kinda like saving a bit of bandwidth, or something... if I actually tried to buy, let's saaay this? A better recording of that? Dude I don't know where to go! No way. And the other movements, absolutely no idea. I totally haven't seen them anywhere. (One of those pay-two-dollars-for-this-piece websites would be cool though, I mean I keep finding progressively worse recordings, but anyway --)
Makes me wonder if that copy of Sea Dogs my friend has is pirated...
Like rock-ground says, many things don't make it over here and there's no choice but to pirate if you want to experience it!
Oh, well, okay, not many but a few things I care about.
(That goes for music, games, and... well I don't really bother with television/movies anyway)
That said I've pirated a few things that were probably available. *scratches head* Maybe. For games I never felt too bad about it because past a certain date only the store (who sells stuff way overpriced ololol) would get any money from me, but hey, I guess it's still horrible and wrong...
A few years on I have a bit of a better appreciation for the industry and blah blah and I totally haven't pirated anything for ages that would have been available normally, or something.
And the music, gee, I never really... I mean the stuff... does it even come on CDs? I don't even know, I like, take things from youtube, and that's kinda like saving a bit of bandwidth, or something... if I actually tried to buy, let's saaay this? A better recording of that? Dude I don't know where to go! No way. And the other movements, absolutely no idea. I totally haven't seen them anywhere. (One of those pay-two-dollars-for-this-piece websites would be cool though, I mean I keep finding progressively worse recordings, but anyway --)
Makes me wonder if that copy of Sea Dogs my friend has is pirated...
Clover
neither simple, nor coherent.
This. I download absolutely every kind of media and don't really shame myself for doing it at all. (Though I should get around to buying TWEWY, just to give them my money... And then give it away to someone else! :D)
Minish
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If I couldn't download certain music, I wouldn't necessarily buy it. CD manufacturing companies and artists are losing nothing by my downloading.
I still buy the occasional physical CD, but mainly because I like having an album in my hands. If I hadn't already listened to this music previously, i.e. through downloading, I would not buy it. If this somehow makes me a terrible human being, so be it!
And that is my view on my piracing :o
I still buy the occasional physical CD, but mainly because I like having an album in my hands. If I hadn't already listened to this music previously, i.e. through downloading, I would not buy it. If this somehow makes me a terrible human being, so be it!
And that is my view on my piracing :o
Pwnemon
will remain confined to the pokemon topics
Nothing x Over one billion people = something.
Minish
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My point is that if I couldn't download, I wouldn't buy any CDs whatsoever because I don't have the money to keep buying music I'm not already very familiar with. If you're suggesting that all those one billion people download for the same reasons that I do, then... your argument doesn't really work!
Let me download, and I will keep on spending money on CDs.
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No it isn't. Theft implies that I take something from someone, thus depriving them of it. I am not depriving anyone of anything by pirating.
I do believe she meant literally nothing. I am reasonably sure 0 × 1,000,000,000 = 0.
Karkat Vantas
Virile God-Snake Tower of Masculinity
Harlequin
Active member
I see it this way: If I pirate it I wasn't going to pay for it anyway. The things I pirate are things I sort of want but wouldn't ever, ever pay for. I pay for some stuff, like how I just bought a PS3 and FFXIII, or how I own all the Buffy seasons on DVD or like how I've got Battlestar Galactica on blu-ray, but I pirate everything else.
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I agree. Amanda Palmer's been doing it for ages (well, she sets a minimum price to cover her costs, which is less than a dollar) and she's doing excellently indeed. Loads of people used to cite the statistic that artists make far more money from live shows than from CDs, and I think this only goes to prove it.
(Amanda Palmer also isn't on a label, so anything you pay above that minimum price goes directly to her, which also strikes me as a much better arrangement. A large part of the reason I don't give a damn about music piracy is because labels generally do not need more money.)