Piracy is wrong by the pure definition of the word. If you have to sugarcoat what you do to feel better about yourself, and pretend you aren't doing anything wrong, that's pretty pathetic. Otherwise just admit you are breaking the law and move on. If you feel bad because of it, stop pirating. If you don't, well, keep doing it until you get caught.

Then the answer is simple - you deserve to die by starvation.

Which word?

I have never understood the objection to pirating music. No artist makes money selling albums, they make money touring and selling merchandise. Artists, by and large, get less than 1/100 of the cost of a CD per sale. That means your album would have to go platinum for you make about minimum wage. Selling out an arena at $100 a ticket, on the other hand, garners a bit more revenue.

Or he needs to increase his Income (Get a better job) to allow for the legal purchase of Media, because someone who would starve if they bought movies and DVDs has other priorities and should not be engaging in such frivolous consumerism. He (Niczo) is being especially hypocritical I noticed in this aspect.

Also,
What I think Skexis was trying to convey was that the Pirate Bay was
using the same tools as employed by the **AA in this lawsuit to enact a resolution, or as the phrase goes "Fighting Fire with Fire". I could be mistaken though.

You mean, up to this point in the general scope of Music History. The brilliant thing about the Internet and mass media these days is that Artists now readily have the tools to become self-sufficient in promotion, production, distribution and thereby gaining an audience! No Record Contracts, No Tours, No Bullshit!

I don't disagree - but what artist is going to tour if he's not selling CDs and what management agency is going to front the money for a concert if there are no CD sales to make it possible?

Its a big, big circle.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it was probably "Piracy."

You are so precious.

I am interested in what dictionary you have where the definitions of words include moral judgments about right and wrong.

I didn't say a single thing about morality in this. Lots of things can be right and immoral, or wrong and moral. Right and wrong are simply legalistic terms. If it was legal in a country to practice cannibalism, would that make it moral?

But according to
piracy - Definitions from Dictionary.com
it's illegal.

It's not actually that hard of a concept if you really take the time to think about it.

Wait, what?

"Right" and "Wrong" are concepts confined entirely to law, now?

I didn't realize I was speaking to a child. :(

I am NOT getting into a definition war in a thread about media piracy on GamingForce.

I've said what I want to say, if you want to bitch about definitions, feel free, but I'm not going to take part in that. That wasn't the point of my original post in here.

The only place your dictionary.com definition mentions piracy being illegal are the entries regarding unauthorized radio/television broadcasts and violence at sea. If you're going to nitpick then at least read the definitions you give people. =/

lol you're not going to get into a definition war after you bring it up. Okay.

I didn't bring it up. Pangalin did.

But if you really want me to:

2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy.

You don't read very well, you know that?

I too, can quote from websites! =D

Well, pangalin did want to know what dictionary I got my definition from. I didn't technically get it from there, since I thought the definition of piracy was pretty much common knowledge, but I thought it best to get it from somewhere halfway authoritative.

EDIT: Damn. Just got into a definition war =/.

If you'd like to explain to me how, within the scope of your definition only, "unauthorized" means "illegal" that would be great. You don't read very well, and you're not very smart on top of it, you know that?

And just for your info, since you seem to have memory lapses on top of your multitude other of issues, you brought up definitions.

You people are fucking stupid. But I suppose I'm even worse for feeding the trolls.

Who's bitching? Look, let's just pick a source and go from there.

Do you have a copy of the OED

By what definition of the word are we stupid?

Funny this one is :).

Is "Stupid" a moral or a legal term :(

Moralistic. Notice how I attached the adjective "fucking" before it. That implies the concept of adultery, which everyone knows, is a moral gray area. At least in America.

Well I don't know many lawyers, but the ones I do know aren't stupid so by process of elimination I conclude it is a moral term.

Furthermore, assuming that DarkLink's claim that we're stupid is correct, we are thus moral beings. Ergo, my superior morality demands you fuck off.

I would propose that stupidity is a purely legal construct as otherwise we would not have legal measures for dealing with retards