Yes. Mostly games. Some music and movies.
I also download a lot of TV shows, watch it, then delete it. Sometimes I do it so I can watch it when I want instead of waiting for my cable channels to show it.
Kasz216 said:
Youtube is piracy too! Or at least a lot of people would argue that. I mean is it any different if you download things like random anime episodes and music vs playing them on a VOD. It's the same result... without the annoying hassle of wasted harddrive space. |
Yeah, but youtube is so popular now that hardly anyone will consider watching a music video on it piracy. And it's still a much better medium, for an artist to have their stuff on then for instance piratebay.
And yes I do enjoy the freed up hard disc space
The Doctor will see you now
Promoting Lesbianism --> 
Ive downloaded a couple of thousand songs on the internet.
Who hasn't?
Who hasn't?
Esmoreit said:
Yeah, but youtube is so popular now that hardly anyone will consider watching a music video on it piracy. And it's still a much better medium, for an artist to have their stuff on then for instance piratebay. And yes I do enjoy the freed up hard disc space
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Oh yeah... it's really just more a comment on how the lines are really blurred due to technology.
Music "piracy" never used to be illegal until it became really easy to use computers to pirate it. Copying tapes and taping songs off the radio were perfectly legal.
The truth is... the way money is made off these mediums probably should be changed for the betterment of society in the long run... but won't be.
about 5 years ago i was a pirate in fact i had my own hub in DC++ for anime shows, right now i don't download anything, there is no point thanks to many streaming sites.
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Lol who hasn't?
Actually, I have a video of myself engaging in some video piracy
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
| stof said: Actually, I have a video of myself engaging in some video piracy |
Never has a songtext been more fitting (keep downloading in mind as pirating)
The Doctor will see you now Promoting Lesbianism -->
Lol @ stof and especially Esmoreit
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I keep a USB flash drive with every NES game on my keychain, for enjoying the fruits of my piracy on the go.
And does theater-hopping count as piracy? The other day I saw 4 movies for 1 ticket.
I was going to embed the video for "Don't Download this Song" by Weird Al, but Sony/BMG has disabled embedding for some reason.
That's weird. He put this song up for free to download when the album came out.
Man labels really don't fucking get it.
Don't Download this Song
I posted this in another thread a few weeks ago, but it really fits here too.
David Byrne posted this on his blog in July, 2007:
There was another piece in the Times today about yet another 20 percent drop in CD sales. (Are they running the same news piece every 4 months?) Jeez guys, the writing's on the wall. How long do the record execs think they'll have those offices and nice parking spaces? (Well, more than half of all record A&R and other execs are gone already, so there should be plenty of parking space). They, the big 4 or 5, should give the catalogues back to the artists or their heirs as a gesture before they close the office doors, as they sure don't know how to sell music anymore. (I have Talking Heads stuff on the shelf that I can't get Warner to release.) The "industry" had a nice 50-year ride, but it's time to move on. Luckily, music remains more or less unaffected — there is a lot of great music out there. A new model will emerge that includes rather than sues its own customers, that realizes that music is not a product in the sense of being a thing — it's closer to fashion, in that for music fans it tells them and their friends who they are, what they feel passionately about and to some extent what makes life fun and interesting. It's about a sense of community — a song ties a whole invisible disparate community together. It's not about selling the (often) shattered plastic case CDs used to come in.
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