This is a topic of MUCH discussion in my household. A family member of mine checks out movies from the library or a rental store and copies them. It IS stealing! And those who do it know it’s stealing. “Everybody does it” or the ease of doing it or some other rationalization is just that, a rationalization. People who make movies or video games do so to make a living. If they make a popular movie, they make a lot of money. But regardless of how much money they make (are you envious?) they are entitled to receive the rewards of their labors. By pirating a DVD, you are denying them their wages. You. Not some company out there. Not some “other.” You. If $20 or $30 is too much for a movie in your opinion, go without it. Don’t take it without paying for it. That is stealing.
Agreed, and in the end it comes back to bite you on the *** this practise, not at the end, but now.
At least with Music which doesn’t have a permanent audience unlike the cinema which always has a large audience(DVD is diffrent though). But I don’t download MP3s unless I’ve already got the CD, in which case I just put it in the drive and ripp it for my portable player, which is what you should do morally.
I don’t download MP3 because I know you’ll get charged for the music somehow and may as well just pay. If you don’t pay for the music, they just go “fine, we’ll find another way of charging you for it”, and then decided, “Low and behold, we are going to force nightclubs to pay thirteen times the original amount for music for them to play, if you want the nightlife to survive, better pay for your music, otherwise we’ll just keep on putting the pressure on the innocent third party until it dies and you have no place to go to drink!”
I’m not kidding, the price per person to listen to music for a night at a nightclub was 7cents in Australia… that’s now gone up to $1.10 as the industry looks for ways of charging people for music as the MP3 culture takes over.
That’s why, I refuse to download mp3s now.
