music,porn,movies

i download movies all day every days and also i used to download computer games but now my pc is too much crap to play any games

anime, music, games, some programs like MSOffice and an old version of photoshop, and a couple movies here and there.

I have the Xbox edition of GTA III and I downloaded it for PC. So there.

Music, all of my is legit, well I didn't download it. It was burned onto a disc though if you count that.

Only downloaded music I got is for Frets on Fire

I download only things that either are free or should be free. To that end I download TV shows that were broadcast on networks I could easily have watched pretty regularly. I don't see the point of having a Tivo when downloading episodes of, say, smallvile works the same as recording it on Tivo and watching it a month later. If people are making these shows for free public consumption on the airwaves then paying 2 dollars an episode is pretty excessive. When they give me the option to watch it for free with ads I take it (ala Hulu) since then I am in part suporting their development costs, but if they do not my first inclination is not to give them 2 dollars an episode but rather to take the internet end around.

Music I sometimes buy from itunes and sometimes pirate. Music is a harder thing to justify in terms of paying huge ammount. After all lets say you steal a movie, that movie cost millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars to make. What's the most a song could have possibly cost to make? A few thousand dollars for studio time? With movies you're talking about hundreds of people even past the actors and directors (who I think are overpaid). I don't buy movies so brad pitt can get 20 million, I do it so the boom guy can get his 40k. If they keep raising the cost of admission to a theatre past 10 dollars and the cost of a DVD past 20 or 30 then that may change. There is only so much I'm willing to pay to do the right thing. Yah though, songs, its like 4 guys in a studio plus a producer, I don't feel bad at all downloading a Metalica song. Did you know most of the guys in that band have 5 houses? Lars' FOURTH house is a giant mansion right on the lake in Lake Arrowhead, screw that guy when he talks about how he needs the money and Napster is stealing.

When I do buy its bands that are original, interesting and need the money. I'll download Metalica (I don't think they're even ON Itunes anyway) but I'll def buy Panic at the Disco of Flobots. I use a need based test (in this case the bands need) and go see bands I like in live shows, which is a better way of compensating them anyway (since they get the money not just 10 cents on the dollar for albums while their greedy record labels take the rest).

For games there is no excuse for pirating. Noone is getting the 20 million brad pitt dollars there, its a studio full of Boom guys making 50-100k tops. Piracy is what is killing the PC industry and there is no excuse for doing it. I haven't downloaded a game and not paid for it ever with the exception of a few shareware titles I didn't like (and didn't buy the full version of after downloading the demo) and I don't think that counts.

Even though I hate Microsoft with a passion I didn't even pirate Windows though in hind sight I should have. I only use it on my mac because Microsoft made sure I had to with direct X being pushed as the proprietary games standard. They copied the mac OS in the first place after frauding their way into being given a prerelease 1984 mac. We really shouldn't be rewarding them with 300 dollars every OS upgrade (which again, lifts ENDLESS ideas from OSX and the open source community). After using Vista Ultimate a while I've become convinced that MS should be paying us users for dealing with how badly it sucks. If they don't let me downgrade it (been working on that with tech support for months) to XP I may have to pirate XP because theres no way I'm paying for windows twice.

i created napster

Last year on the last day of school this kid gave me a disk with all of the Adobe programs on it, Photoshop, Flash, etc.

Well I'm very against pirating so the disk has been sitting on my desk for the last 4 months untouched. I have felt the temptation though...I can't bring myself to throw it out :P

I use to pirate music but I stopped as soon as iTunes was released.

Oh, and I do admit that I pirated Limbo of the Lost but that's only because supporting that game supports piracy.

Also, games that are ancient or open source:

Frets on Fire*

Doom 64 TC *

Doom (ancient)

Marathon (ancient)**

Grid Wars*

*Provided for free because it's an open source fan project
**Available for free download on Bungie's own site.

Doom on the other hand, you still have to pay for if you want a legal copy. Which is bullshit because it's so damn old. Though my brother's friend has the Collector's Edition which my brothered copied from his comp and then I put it on my comp.

Since I already had GTA III on the Xbox, should I have to buy it again for PC? I paid 50 bucks for the Double Pack so should I pay more money? I am not hurting anyone. So yeah why not?

If anyone wants any links to the games I mentioned, PM me. (I will not give you my GTA III copy.)

 ROFL! I just googlfied that game and came up with this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310683

It's been discontinuedso I will TPB it tonight and see for myself.