Well, Piracy is the use of a program that you have not paid for, where you should have. It's the theft of programs, music, or other things that people have created and copyrighted. What is so wrong with piracy? What do you think about people who sue others for copyright infringement, when they already have made millions of dollars on the product? I think when a music industry sues someone for copyright infringement, it's just pure greed. They probably already have made millions on the song, and will continue to make money on them.

What again do you guys think about it?

NOTE: This isn't a discussion about how you like to abuse piracy, if you like to abuse piracy, or how to commit malicious acts of piracy. This is for serious discussion of the matter.

Well in my opinion they should (and do) have the right to sue, whether its "right" to sue and having the right are two different things. But even if they have made millions, why would some people have to pay and others not?

No.


Some people will pirate while other who are computer illiterate, or happy followers of the law, may end up paying the charge for it maybe on iTunes or even a CD.

Well i don't claim to have never pirated, and i don't think its something to really be a concern to the law. But i don't think its right just because some people know how and others don't.

But I don't think people should get sued over it either, as they still made huge profit on the music if it's worthwhile for anyone to pirate.

Pirating music is basically going to a store and stealing the CD.

Personally, I would never physically steal a cd, but I pirate music anyways.

The reason I pirate is because its safe and easy to do.

I don't steal because its not a smart thing to do, I could be arrested.



Above is the standard mind-set of most of the people that pirate music/games/other software.

Stealing online is too easy, that's why people do it. Also when it comes to games, if the game costs 60$ a lot of people won't afford/won't buy it anyway and instead just decide to torrent it. Companies add this to their 'losses' when even if they didn't torrent it, they wouldn't have bought it.

Well, technically it's stealing.


Legally, they are correct. When it's an outrageous amount then yeah, it's greedy. Like when the RIAA and some record companies sued Limewire for something like 75 Trillion dollars, that was ridiculous. As long as the amount is within reason then of course it's alright.

It's not like the pirates don't know it's wrong. It's that they don't think that they'll get caught, which for the most part is true.

I saw that someone posted a good article about piracy on these forums at one point, I'll see if I can find it.

this is what i hate about the internet, its not a real (physical) thing that u can see, so anyone can use it or change it but know one knows their name. E.g itunes , the cds on their arnt real, they only exist as a few kb of files, so theres know way to know if they been stolen...........

That's not the definition of piracy at all. For instance, if I use a program that someone gifted me, am I pirating?