What's your limit on piracy?

[Rodimus Prime]

And neither of your examples is the same as piracy.

you are grasphing at straws. Fact of the matter under the defention you provided nothing physical was stolen yet you consider it illegal and Apple has the right to go after you for every song stolen.

 

[Hellhammer]

What do you consider piracy? I always thought it was ripping an illegal copy of something for free. If you steal from the iTunes store isn't that an illegal rip?

Piracy: "the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work"

That is the definition of the word piracy and that is what I think it is.

If there was a steal button in iTunes without any hacks, then that I would consider as piracy. However, hacking the iTunes Store and then stealing would be hacking AND piracy. Hacking is something totally different and not the topic of this thread. I have never hacked anything in my life and I am not willing to do that in the future either.

 

[Hastings101]

I guess I'm a 5? All of my music, unless it's from an artist I really enjoy, comes from alternative sources while all of my software, productivity & games, is purchased.

Movies are meh, if I really enjoyed the movie I'll go out and buy it. Otherwise I might get it somewhere else.

 

[steviem]

If I own or owned it - I am not opposed to downloading something. I sold my entire Blu-Ray and DVD collection and have gone completely digital.

SOLD is the operative word here, just because you owned it previously, once you sell it you give up the rights of using it.

You said there is a difference from stealing from a record store vs a download. I gave you an example of stealing from an online record store.

Think of piracy as someone else stealing (or maybe even buying) the cd, copying it and then letting you have the copy. Remember back in the day when people would tape songs on the radio, or tape some sport for a friend to watch? It's more akin to that.

Yeah, I could never get the hang of a $150,000 penalty for illegally downloading/sharing a song that costs $1. People (lawmakers, in this case) fear what they don't understand.

And this is the problem with Torrents. The design of the system is that if you download something, you then upload parts of that thing. If you're distributing it, then you could be liable.

 

[synnerg]

No, people like you are the reason you have to deal with annoying DRM and security measures in all the software you buy. Like how I put that into perspective for you?

I don't deal with all the annoying DRM and annoying security in software, because I disable the DRM and security once and never deal with it again. If you would do what I do, you wouldn't have to deal with annoying DRM and security protocols in software that you deal with. Don't try to say it's my fault that you deal with DRM, it's your own fault.

-Don

++REP

How about all the kids that can't make money due to obvious labor laws? With unlimited easy access to WWW - How many of them have figured out what Bittorrent is? Or that "Piratebay" is not the new Pirates of The Caribean flick?

Of course there is suppose to be a mature approach to "piracy" with social conditions, norms, and accepted behaviors, but I reject your reality and substitute it with my own.

My employment status in the IT industry would have been 5 years behind if I had waited to acquire software until i could afford it? How was I supposed to buy even $10+ programs at 10years old?
I was lucky to have a computer at all living in Mexico.

 

[Tomorrow]

Remember back in the day when people would tape songs on the radio, or tape some sport for a friend to watch? It's more akin to that.

The courts ruled that was legal.

 

[steviem]

So why is file sharing, especially in a private tracker, called 'Piracy'?

 

[skiltrip]

I'm a real scalawag...