What is your stance on piracy?

[BenKenobi88]

madkiller said:
Piracy does NOT cost the industry any money because most of the people that pirate would not have bought most of the products they pirated anyway.

That is the biggest bullshit argument ever, and TOO MANY pirates use it.

It's cause and effect, or something like that. You wouldn't buy a mediocre movie...but you're OK with downloading it and watching it?

So the question is: Are you downloading a movie because you wouldn't buy it normally?
or is it: Do you not buy a movie because you're downloading it? You have the ability to download movies for free...why the hell should you pay?

Too many people say its the first question...but really, you're lazy and cheap, and don't feel like shelling out the money that you owe for watching a movie...and since you can download a moive easily, you don't buy it.

Again I'll say, I download movies sometimes, but I don't try to justify it with crap arguments like that. It's not, "I would never buy The Professional, so I downloaded it this week and watched it," it's, "I don't want to buy The Professional, and I'm not going to buy it now or any time soon, I'd rather just download it." So that's what I did...and that's one less The Professional sale.