Piracy not theft because its a copy..

[chapset]

superchunk said:

chapset said:
What about all the tools that's are create to help pirating, the dvd burners, the Ipod, the blank cds and dvds, the divx players.
What if some other companies would give you all the tools to create a Ferrari by yourself and to use it, wouldn't you do it? The apple Ipod would not be where it is without napster and Kazaa, pirating started the mp3 business (well I think anyway)
What about High speed Internet would you really use up that 100GB download limit if you were not pirating? Pirating did a lot of damage to some companies but help a lot of others so it's not as wrong as people make it to be

I have dvd most of those items and still don't pirate. I use them for their intended purposes.

I copy my child's dvd movies so they dont' ruin the originals.

I take my digital video from my Sony camera and digital pictures from my cell and camera and make videos/gifts/etc.

I use them to backup my HDD.

As I have said before, I would never copy a product just because I have the capability. Without consent it is illegal and theft as defined above.

Pirating has done nothing good for any market. Music industry can use MP3's because their product can be broken down into small inexpensive parts, games and movies cannot. As their content needs to be whole to be of any value.

Pirating only helps the thieves.

The iPod and other such devices, along with their online stores, made MP3 and similar formats huge, not pirates.

Strangely enough the mp3 player boom happend right at the peak of pirating out of all people i know who possess or use to possess an Ipod or a mp3 player all of them had pirate song in them, before all the fuss about pirating I didn't even know sharing music was a crime and many people still don't know about it, you might not use those device illegaly but many people do and the companies creating those device make money from those illegal behavior