Your stance on piracy ?

[routsounmanman]

llewdebkram said:
I'm not going to read the other comments until I've finished my post so I'm not distracted from my opinion.

I think people need to make a stand on the massive profits many of these companies are making.
Whilst millions are starving and have nowhere to live big companies seem to think they have a perfect right to make massive profits every year and if it doesn't look like the're going to, well so what if a few thousand of their staff have to be laid off.
Of course companies have to make a profit but in my opnion there is acceptable profit and profit at the expense of other people.

I'm constantly hearing, especially from record companies how their artists are being robbed of income due to illegal downloads, yet I still see reports of major artists making millions of $/£ each year.
There is also the arguement that new bands are suffering because of illegal downloads but it seems to me they are suffering because of the constant promotion of reality TV artists and already well astablished acts.
If they really really want to promote new and talented bands, lets have a few appearing on Xfactor etc instead of yet another appearance from Lady Gaga, Maria Carey et al.

I'm not sure who decided it was any artist or companies right to make as much money as they do from products but I myself have decided it's too much, and until they lower them to a more reasonable level, or decide they can maka real difference to peoples lives by donating 25%+ of their profits to helping people that are in real need I will continue to support piracy.

It's pure greed and I hate it!

What Keeps Mankind Alive?
(Weill/Brecht 1928)

So first make sure that those who are now starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving

You have no right to steal even a penny from the richest person alive. They work hard, they do something better than the others, they get rich. You have no right to claim some of that prize.