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Do you pirate?

But let's say it, Photoshop is probably the most pirated piece of software. I can't believe that any single teenager on this forum or people editing their pictures during the weekend have bought it. It's also what made this software so famous. Everybody uses it, and when you get to use it for professionally you just buy it.
 
I am a weekend picture editor and I have a legit copy of CS4 ....

That said, I bought it using a teacher licence so it was just very expensive as opposed to incredibly expensive!! I can certainly see why it is one of the most pirated pieces of software.
 
When I was in college, I did the Napster thing quite a bit, only buying CDs when interested in the sound quality (for you kids, back then most MP3s were only encoded at 128 kbit/s - the horror! ;) ). Photoshop got passed around a lot too. CD burners were becoming more common, and educational versions were purchased at the campus store and promptly burned.

Now that I'm older, I don't pirate anymore.
 
I used to do it a lot on pretty much everything, but I've pretty much stopped now. BBC iPlayer and Spotify have negated the need for most of it.

The odd US show i'll download as it's much quicker and easier than waiting for it to be released in the UK, and I download some anime as it could be months before they're released on dvd subbed, as opposed to getting it online in perfect quality the day after it's released on tv in Japan.

I'll buy my CD's now and I only use freeware on my laptop. My iPhone has a few paid for apps but the majority are free, I don't want to jailbreak it.
 
Nope. Don't listen to much music. Got a god awful slow connection (756Kbps :eek:), so buying is less aggravating than pirating. So it's all legit for me.

I do make copies of my DVD's though. If I watch the original disc, I'd be finished with my popcorn before the movie even starts.:mad:
 

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Angelo95210 said:
But let's say it, Photoshop is probably the most pirated piece of software. I can't believe that any single teenager on this forum or people editing their pictures during the weekend have bought it. It's also what made this software so famous. Everybody uses it, and when you get to use it for professionally you just buy it.
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Yeah, there's a line I won't cross. Could I use Photoshop? Absolutely. Can I afford to buy it for personal use? Nope. Will I pirate it instead? Hell no.

I get by with other solutions instead, like PixelMator or GraphicConverter.
 
Angelo95210 said:
But let's say it, Photoshop is probably the most pirated piece of software. I can't believe that any single teenager on this forum or people editing their pictures during the weekend have bought it. It's also what made this software so famous. Everybody uses it, and when you get to use it for professionally you just buy it.
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I don't doubt that it is the most pirated software behind MS Windows. However, you can get the student and teacher edition of PS pretty cheap. Amazon has it for $190. I'm sure there are even cheaper versions if bought through a university/college. Yeah, $200 is a lot of money to a student, but it is a lot less than the full price. Maybe they can get it as a gift. :)

It amazes me how cheap the student versions of software can be. Microsoft Office and Windows 7 are under $100 through their ultimate steal deal. Amazon shows the "regular" price of Photoshop as $1000. That just shows how much the software is marked up.
 
I used to pirate music in the early 2000's but I don't anymore. Even when I did, it was just mostly to "sample" the music. If I really liked it, I would eventually buy the CD....some of that is probably because the quality of mp3's were poor, back then. Even so, I prefered/still do prefer having physical copies of my media. Which means buying. Nowadays, there are plenty of ways to stream high quality samples (or complete versions) of songs, legally and for free.

Now, TV shows, I sometimes download. ...but I definitely don't consider that stealing. For example, if I download an HBO show to watch because I missed/couldn't watch the original airing, that is not stealing. I already pay for HBO. It's the same as if I DVR'd the episode. I just don't want to pay extra for stupid DVR service. But HBO doesn't loose out from this. They still get my money for the episode/cable subscription.
 
I never pirate music. I listen to a lot of heavy metal and those guys are working for peanuts pretty much so I would feel like **** if I stole from them. I do occasionally torrent TV shows but that's it.

I love the reasoning some people use to try and differentiate Piracy from stealing. Downloading an album torrent is no different than walking into a music store, putting a CD in your pocket and walking out.
 
I won't pretend that everything on my MBP is clean
However, if I find an application truly useful, I will buy it or donate

I do have downloaded music, but rarely listen to it
I use Pandora more than anything these days
 
Former pirate, now legit. I only pirated music though. No apps or anything else. But now that I sold my Mac, I can't use Limewire on my PC(Viruses)
 
I did when Napster and Kazaa were big, but have no since then. When I got my own computer, I ripped all of my CDs and got music from friends (physical CDs). I now buy all of my music through iTunes, Amazon, or 7digital (GREAT place for cheap, new albums!)
 
Torrents and other peer to peer downloads: Excluding legal ones like like linux distros, 1 movie that I missed the second half of it while it played on TV.

Trials that I unlocked (edited files or googled for serial numbers): about 4. Much lower risk in doing this vs P2P from a untrusted source.

Software that is open source or was included with computer makes up more than 75% the software on my MacBook Pro.
 
spinnerlys said:
That somehow does not make sense.

Btw, I used to pirate TV shows, as they take their time to get over the pond and the dubbing is abysmal here.
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I used it for a while. Then the computer got riddled with viruses. So lime wire got blamed and now I can't use it anymore.
 
Antares said:
Now, TV shows, I sometimes download. ...but I definitely don't consider that stealing. For example, if I download an HBO show to watch because I missed/couldn't watch the original airing, that is not stealing. I already pay for HBO. It's the same as if I DVR'd the episode. I just don't want to pay extra for stupid DVR service. But HBO doesn't loose out from this. They still get my money for the episode/cable subscription.
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This is one are of the piracy argument I find silly. The MPAA/RIAA would have you believe grabbing a TV show is stealing. I believe anything broadcast over the air is fair game. Those are free channels and are broadcast over the air. I don't see any difference in recording a TV show and grabbing it from a torrent. I can almost see channels like HBO getting upset about it, since they make their money through subscriptions. If you don't subscribe to their channel, then it technically is piracy.

All the industry arguments about this stuff tend to have a flaw, though. They assume that if you download something, they are losing money. Personally, I know I used to get stuff that I kind of liked, but not enough to go buy it. IF my choices were "buy the cd" or "don't listen to it", my choice would be not to have it at all. Either way, they weren't getting money. To me, it was like the old school days when I would record stuff off the radio onto cassettes. I wasn't going to buy the whole album, but I would buy a blank cassette and record stuff.
 
nmrrjw66 said:
A CD is not an "original", it is a physical "copy" of the product. A download is a digital copy of the product. Try again.
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The difference between "physical" and "digital" is actually exactly what matters. The store that sells the CD has bought it from another vendor or the music company that produces the artist. When you steal the CD, the store has to buy the CD again (which means they lose money). When you pirate the album, nobody loses money. The image posted makes this quite obvious.

If you're still not convinced, try making a physical copy with ⌘C :)

B.winkle said:
Is it piracy to copy a DVD I purchased onto my HD?
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The music industry and Steve Jobs probably would like to make you think so, but by all reasonable standards, it isn't.
 
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