https://www.thewrap.com/article/dark-knight-pirater-gets-2-years-jail-14445
Your thoughts?
You’re asking thoughts on selling pirated copies?
He should be shot, hung or drowned. So he got off lightly imho.
I buy my games, programs, and even movies. However, I have not paid full price for almost any of them, as I find good deals, sales, or buy used. Ebay and amazon have used movies for sometimes under $3 shipped. Software like Photoshop (I own 5.5 and CS2), I can buy the upgrade instead of paying for the full version. I use Photoshop for work, so I make money from the efforts of others, I would not feel right if I hadn’t paid for it. Other programs, I often buy OEM over retail, as the cost is significantly cheaper, and I am a system builder. For games, I usually wait a few weeks for the prices to drop, as initial release prices tend to be $10 to $20 more than the game will settle to within a month or two. I have no problem not playing the latest game the day it comes out, though Counterstrike, Half-life², and Doom³ were all purchased the day of the release (or pre-ordered). I also am a PC gamer, so game prices are already cheaper than console game prices…
When I was much younger and poorer, I did not always do the ‘right’ thing, but I have made serious efforts to have legit copies of all the software I use.
You’re fucked up. You think this guy deserves to die because he ripped off the movie industry, an industry that makes a shit-ton of money every year pumping out unoriginal garbage, purely because people watch it.
Yes, what he did was wrong, and he does deserve the fine and the jail time, but sentenced to death because he copied some media?
I was messing around :<
I’ve never pirated a game, though I do download music all the time. I just don’t have enough money to buy music I don’t know if I’ll like. If I like the artist, then I’ll buy their CD when I have the cash.
I think I’ve went over this before, but to repeat:
- Most, if not all, bands put low-res versions of their songs on their website through video trailers, musicplayers or random preview clips.
- Pretty much every music store has demo pods that has their entire catalog on there for your previewing pleasure, or at the very least an option to just ask the people there to let you preview a certain album
The argument of downloading music because you don’t want to buy something that might not be good = moot.
You know, not all artists even have a decent website. Especially older artists, that aren’t active anymore.
Not that I download music all too often, I buy a lot.
Just use spotify then, sure you get a couple adverts, but you get to listen to as much music as you like, free and legal
Okay. There’s a song out there that I absolutely love from the artist. I don’t want to spend $15 for the song and get 12 other songs that I don’t want. They don’t have their songs available for download via purchase.
How do I get the song I want legally? Should I overspend buying things I don’t want to get to the thing I do?
Amazon offers MP3s for a lot of albums, maybe you can check that.
It’s called “business.” That’s how they get you.
Also, what isn’t on iTunes or Amazon these days?
You all do realize that the publisher is still the one getting the most money from CD sales and such, the real money that musicians get is from concerts.
If you don’t mind having to use an app to play the songs, try spotify, free music, if you have a premium account you dont get any ads and you can put it on your phone.
Better to be a pirate-loving nerd than a consumerist corporate-whore? Duh.
You use iTunes. Ignorance =/= a justification for stealing.
If the song is on iTunes…
You keep using that word.
