What is your stance on piracy?

[madkiller]

BenKenobi88 said:

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.

Don't call me lazy and cheap. I own hundreds of games, movies AND CDs. However, I don't buy CDs anymore and I only buy DVDs that on sale or really cheap. I buy ALL my games, I don't pirate those at all. Also, I have NEVER shared anything over the internet with anyone else ever. I have also never made any money off of someone elses work. I do believe that CDs are not worth anywhere near what the companies charge and refuse to buy those anymore. Also, movies are not worth $20+ either, so I buy them only when they are cheap. I always prefer to have the original of anything, but I am not rich and cannot afford everything I would want to have so I download stuff sometimes, but I still spend thousands on the real products. Do not lump me in with the guys that spend all their time pirating.

However, I still think it is naive to believe that those billion dollar companies are really losing any money to pirating. I definitely don't feel bad for pirating something here and there, those companies are NOT hurting at all.