Piracy

[Kasz216]

highwaystar101 said:

I hate piracy in all its forms. Piracy is theft, end of, and no attempted justification is acceptable.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, I've pirated a couple of things too and I admit to that. I often watch some American TV programmes online because we can't get some of them here in England.

But I don't particularly feel good that. I know this makes me sound like a hypocrite, but I hate it when people do it habitually. People who download films, music, e-books and other media every day are just killing an industry.

I would disagree with the killing the industry bit but other then that I agree.

All the consumer usage studies i've seen haven't shown an impact in "real" sales lost.

Though they were mostly music studies.  In general they found piracy didn't effect consumption vs the control, and that within the group of pirates... the more you pirated, the more CDs you bought rather then less.

Outside of the "SUPER COLLECTORS" anyway who have their own PCs for music and shit.

In general piracy just seemed a gauge of interest in the medium.