I have made or uploaded pirate copies of music or movies.
0% (0 votes)
I have often bought or downloaded pirated music or movies. I don't feel bad.
50% (3 votes)
I have occasionally bought or downloaded pirated music or movies. I don't feel bad.
17% (1 vote)
I have bought or downloaded pirated music or movies. I feel bad.
17% (1 vote)
I have shared some copyrighted material such as images without authorisation but never pirated anything.
0% (0 votes)
I would never violate a copyright. It is illegal and unfair to the artists and producers.
17% (1 vote)
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6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
Magicians sue over revealed tricks
Google says Viacom lawsuit threat to Internet use
(Links from Drudge Report)
I think in Google's case, if they are being tardy over video fingerprinting that is one thing but it is unrealistic to hold them accountable for their users' unauthorised violations. Which raises the question of whether Google should sue the violators or give Viacom a list. Personally I think it's generally wrong but I do understand the sharing of a TV clip, the use of images either as avatars or as Shabbat Shalom illustrations and extensive quoting provided the link is given. I also think artists should view copyright violations as inevitable but strike back against movie and music piracy by flooding the relevant upload or sharing sites with extremely poor copies.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min
When I go to my local market, I used to see people selling foreign tobacco and cigarettes. Now when I go there I see Chinese people selling dvd's (2 for £5), which is really cheap compared to buying an original copy.
When I used to borrow them from a mate, the picture quality was surprisingly good for a pirated copy.
I'm not into films so I do not buy dvd's, I only watch it if comes on tv.
It was in our local newspaper that a guy was arrested after he was found to having thousands of pirated dvd's, he was convicted recently.
There is a short video clip when a reporter goes undercover.
6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
There are obviously cost-benefits because the production costs are next to nothing. Thus the producers are being ripped off. That is why copyright is protected. I have downloaded pirate movies and I guess the logic is a) I want to watch it now, in bed and b) the producers won't starve. But I'm regretting it, seeing as it's theft. This thread is my turning point. I'm going straight.
Downsides are variable quality, and watching rubbish because it's there. Upside is I've seen every South Park episode made to date including those not yet broadcast in the UK. But I could have waited.
Sorry Matt and Trey. I won't do it again.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
12 August 2006
1 year 11 weeks
i always buy my dvds from the chinese ...they r great quality copys...
its such a waste of resources for the police to harass people for selling pirates...
it may be technically illegal but only in the eyes of the law...
one guy in southall recently got 15 months after getting caught with £200,000 grand worth of bootleg bollywood dvds!!...very harsh sentence...he would have got less for robbing someone at knifepoint...
wembely market always getting raided by these petty council killjoys as well...
the music and film production companys are the real criminals...they should cut their prices or everyone will carry on snapping up the bargain offers from the triads...
They Vote To Send Us To War Instantly.....But None Of Their Kids Serve In The Infantry...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE....
16 August 2005
11 weeks 5 days
I second that!
They're robber barons! Why would you pay 25 bucks for a DVD when you can download it in twenty minutes?!
24 June 2005
24 sec
yo ho ho and a bottle of milk
Walking through life unnoticed
Knowing that no one cares
Too consumed in their masquerade
No one sees me there
And still I'll sings
Till everything burns.
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
In America when the MAFIAA go after kids - that is where I draw the line. And they do go after kids. Some not even 10 at the time of the purported "crimes".
What you may not know is that the RIAA is now trying to make ALL recordings on net radio have royalties going to them - whether or not the artist actually is a member - or even wants to charge for his/her productions.
(Slashdot Story)
If an artist decided to collect on this royalty collected on its behalf, it will have to cough up and join the RIAA.
The RIAA should be abolished. Its practices are way too shady for a legitimate business.
And for the Record I am not much of a music fan. i do not really listen to any at all.
PS copyright infringement is illegal. However it is not "piracy". That is a different crime altogether.
PPS MAFIAA (Music and Filmic Industry Ass. of America) is a fictional merger of RIAA (Recording Industries Ass. of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Ass. of America.)
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11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min
For a second there I thought you were talking about the Italian Mafia, with the extra A as a typo error.
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
There is not much difference between the two.
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11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min
I stream TV shows such as Prison Break, not sure if it is considered to be downloading.
Is that illegal?
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
If the stream has no rights to broadcast, then yes.
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21 November 2006
4 hours 9 min
everyone should understand that piracy IS a serious crime.
Fair enough, you can say it eats into the profits of the multinational companies like record labels and film studios.
but you must remember that these companies hire a lot of normal people as engineers, artists, designers, cleaners etc etc etc
it is THESE low-payed workers who suffer, not the millinonaire CEOs
if you still want to watch films, TV shows and listen to music (nasheeds, obviously
) please remember that they require your money.
please people.
it is both illegal and, more importantly, IMMORAL
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24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
Piracy IS a serious crime.
However copying digitial/analogue signals is NOT piracy.
If the material is copyrighted, it is copyright infringement. Totally different crime. Still serious, but it is not piracy.
Calling it piracy is spreading FUD.
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11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min
piracyisacrime
Don't support it. Report it!
6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
I would have thought piracy is a type of copyright infringement. Admin, what you are saying about copying the signals went over my head, are you referring to streaming websites and chipped digi-boxes?
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
I am saying that downloading/copying a copyrighted file is not the same as sailing in a ship with a parrot on your shoulder looting and plundering those you come across where not only do you gain access to somethign you do not own, someone actually loses out to that exact same thing.
This article is about Piracy.
Everytime an organisation calls copyright infringement piracy, they are lying. This is a very popular lie.
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6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
I thought you were saying something more complicated.
Selling and disseminating cheaply copied files seems to fit the legal definition of piracy. I know that if I download a movie I am a lot less likely ever to rent it from the corner shop or buy it in the supermarket, and effectively I am using the product or an inferior copy without paying the makers. You can argue that I am not thereby stealing anything tangible, but since the digital files are what is for sale that seems a weak argument. It is true that the funding crime aspect isn't likely in the case of downloads, but the theft is just as real. For sure not all copyright infringement is piracy though.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min
So would it be legal to buy the software from Iran and use them here in the UK?
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
I am NOT saying it is acceptable.
Just that it is not piracy. The internet is not the High Sea's
The crime is called Copyright Infringement. It is a serious one at that.
@MuslimBro - It would be legal to buy it in Iran and use it in Iran.
Since there are no distribution deals with Iran or the supplier - I would say it is still illegal here.
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6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
*EDITED POST* Fair enough. Copyright theft isn't piracy as practised by Captain Hook. But piracy has entered common parlance as another word for copyright theft. I'm no expert so I looked it up on the link MuslimBro provided.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
From Wikipedia:
"Copyright Infringement" and "Piracy"
Apparently under the law the two terms are interchangable (look at the copyright infringement page). but there those who argue against that.
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6 November 2006
1 year 5 weeks
We should call it copyright murder.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
26 June 2005
3 weeks 1 day
i have no problems with 'try before u buy'
Round and round the Ka'bah,
Like a good Sahabah,
One step, Two step,
All the way to jannah
24 June 2005
1 hour 2 min
It's the pesky law that does though!
It’s a brand new day
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11 May 2006
6 hours 10 min