Is the Pirate Bay down?

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TheRealMafoo said:

akuma587 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

akuma587 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

akuma587 said:

I don't feel bad about downloading movies because I go see them in the theater pretty often.

 

So as long as you buy most of your food, stealing the rest is OK?

Since when did you become the morality police?  I seem to recall you claiming waterboarding was alright.

I don't care if it is stealing.  I'm going to continue to do it.  You know why?  Because studios completely half ass their DVD releases in the first place.  They don't put any kind of thought into the packaging.  It is usually little more than a piece of plastic.  The only thing of value they even give me is the disc itself.  I don't like paying money to feel like I am getting ripped off.  In this day and age, I could just DVR the movies and put them onto a disc later.  But I guess that doesn't count.

Now you want to talk about a film company that actually puts work into their releases that I am willing to buy, you can talk about Criterion.  They don't half ass their stuff and make me feel like I am paying them to slack off.  I still regularly buy stuff from them.

 

 

You are going into a profession to practice law when you clearly have no use for it.

Your premise, is it’s ok to break a law if the lawbreaker feels justified.

Why have laws?

This is from the same guy who has suggested raising taxes was an unconstitutional taking of people's property.

Why is downloading music a crime rather than just a civil penalty?  Do you know how many teenagers and young people we would have to put in jail if we enforced this law to its full extent?  Around 70% of them in the ENTIRE COUNTRY.

Why are people charged thousands of dollars for downloading one song when the actual damage caused by not purchasing that song were $1 and the Supreme Court has set limits on punitive damages being in excess of a 9:1 ratio as being unconstitutional?  Because the music industry is abusing the law, that is why.

 

 

How are my views about piracy any different then my views about taxes? I feel when you tax people for the purpose of strictly giving those funds to someone else who has done nothing to earn them, is stealing. Just like this.

As saying just because everyone breaks the law, that it's ok to break the law... well.. I don't even know what to say about that.

Everything you have said in this thread, is just justification for feeling ok about doing something wrong.  If it helps you sleep at night, more power to ya.

The funny thing is your tax dollars are being used to build roads on the other side of the country. Do you think we should stop road construction because homeless people will benefit from that road?

Oh, and its funny how people haven't pointed out the obvious. Stealing is taking a persons properity and then depriving them of that propery. With piracy the original owner still has their property.