What do you think about piracy?

[Jules]

Piracy is a religious tradition!

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[intpz]

Piracy is a religious tradition!

Wow, it's worse than I thought!

 

[tiptheauthors]

How can we resolve movie piracy problem without punishments and restrictions?

I am doing research in university about it, please help by answering these a few multiple choice questions http://goo.gl/2cXRp and share your ideas in here. Thank you!

 

[Etheri]

How can we resolve movie piracy problem without punishments and restrictions?

I am doing research in university about it, please help by answering these a few multiple choice questions http://goo.gl/2cXRp and share your ideas in here. Thank you!

If we fill in the questionaire, will you stick around to discuss the topic, perhaps show us the results of your study / questionaire?

Seems like a fair tradeoff. I'm sure that, the better the discussion, the more people might fill it out. I guess i'll just get started as a sign of good faith?

 

[Architect]

Disregarding copyrights means disregarding authority, something INTP's are prone to. So one would expect INTP's to be less careful of copyrights than otherwise.

I pay attention to Copyright because I can afford to, and I know what it's like on the other side of that.

 

[Hawkeye]

People used to pirate because they simply couldn't afford the goods. Now that we have ultra-fast Internet connections and huge data storage devices people seem to be pirating things simply because they can. Imagine if we were still restricted to 56k dial-up and 1.44MB floppies. ^^

However, illegally downloading software is not as bad as people make it out to be and recent studies have shown this.

Take the music industry for example, you'll find that a lot of those that pirate music actually have a shit-ton of legitimate music. In fact, these people tend to purchase more music than those that do not pirate.

 

[Puffy]

People used to pirate because they simply couldn't afford the goods. Now that we have ultra-fast Internet connections and huge data storage devices people seem to be pirating things simply because they can. Imagine if we were still restricted to 56k dial-up and 1.44MB floppies. ^^

However, illegally downloading software is not as bad as people make it out to be and recent studies have shown this.

Take the music industry for example, you'll find that a lot of those that pirate music actually have a shit-ton of legitimate music. In fact, these people tend to purchase more music than those that do not pirate.

Yeah, that's interesting. I pirate a lot of things, but it's also because I buy a lot of music, films, books, etc, and if I'm ambiguous about something I prefer to download it first before getting a copy. I can't afford it otherwise, which doesn't effect the ethics of such of course.

I also have pirated copies of most comics I own, simply because I prefer to also have a copy on my laptop so I don't have to carry my library around with me. This is legal, as if asked I can simply show my hard copies. So pirating has other quite legimitate uses.

But to be honest, how many films and albums have I simply download off of youtube, which isn't illegal at all given the fact it is public domain? Most of them I think, actually. I suspect this is just the way things are going and corporations/ artists need to adapt.

 

[ℜεмїηїs¢εη¢ε]

I pirate everything. I don't even give much of a second thought honestly.

 

[Hayyel]

Same thing with me. Yarr! (I'm too poor and too lazy to actually give money for things that I could get free).