Illegal Downloads aka the Hong Kong of the Internet

I used to use a lot of pirate software when I was younger, and now don't use any. I still get some songs which I'm not entitled to, but buy albums and songs as well. I often download things, evaluate them, and decide whether or not I want to buy that artist's stuff. Same goes for movies. I'll download movies that aren't available to rent (or sometimes just because I want to), but being a stickler for quality transfers and a sucker for commentaries, I buy the DVDs of the movies I like.

Originally Posted by soniclover

The only time I don't feel okay about people downloading and sharing music is when it's a rare soundtrack that nobody can just go and buy. When there actually isn't an option to buy it anymore.

This is the mirror opposite of my thinking. If a song is readily available, buy it. If it is not readily available through legal means, then you couldn't have bought it in the first place. If my local stores or ITMS doesn't carry a song/album I want, then I consider downloading it.

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Originally Posted by soniclover

For me, it matters how good something is for me to warrant buying it.

Like the way they wanted you to pay for Winrar just so you don't have an annoying pop-up that says "time expired, go buy this!''. I don't think that's worth purchasing the service for.

The whole issue I'm having with this is that many people will easily download something and not feel remorse. It makes me think that people will go to the very limits that they can. We know it's wrong but we still do it because it's free, easy, and convenient.

Sometimes I wonder, if you could kill somebody with a single mouse click, and not get caught...how many people would be dead right now?

But with the shareware/donationware stuff you aren't supposed to think about it as getting rid of a pop-up. You are supposed to evaluate whether the application is good, and that you would want to support the developers for their efforts. Do you use Winrar? Then you should pay for it. It's *not* just to kill the pop-up, the pop-up is just to get you to realize that you should pay the developers. It seems it failed to do so.

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Originally Posted by MagicumMusica

Im sorry, clearly downloading at high speeds is risking peoples lifes...i was nto aware of this, thankyou for this piece of useless info

That makes a lot of sense since all laws must be safety-related, otherwise they have no value.

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Some do. I mean, otherwise there would be no commercial software. It's unfortunate that regardless of the quality of the product or how much use it is to an individual, some people just don't feel like the provider of this product deserves their money.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.