How many people here download music illegaly?

Robopirate

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*cough* me *cough*

Mistress Develion

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GRZL

R/Me

me......

Doooom

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I have no idea what you're talking about. I can't even conceive of how someone would do such a thing.

Xue Yi Liang

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Northern CA

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Mo/Me

not me ... and that's not my real IP either ....


If you're not a cop then show me your boobs ....

SOT

SOT

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East Texas

What is music?

Shinsei

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Denmark

What's a download?

Savio

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Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

What is people?

Sir Skullcrasher

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W/Mo

how do you use Internet?

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Guild Hall, Vent, Guesting, PvE, or the occasional HA match...

Dark Alley [dR]

*cough* move to unshared folder after DL is finished *cough*

Avari Zi

Avari Zi

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What the hell is music?

Sir Skullcrasher

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California

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W/Mo

I'm a download pirate?

EchoSex

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Boston, MA

N/W

Movies, music, TV shows, DVDs, Software, Games... You name it. To me, it's just sharing with other people, as I normally give to the community before I take.

chris_nin00

chris_nin00

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Reddit Guild

R/

Illegally?
Never.
*Cough**Cough**Cough*

*Starts to choke*
*Falls to the groundz*

wsmcasey

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Right behind you.

HeRo

W/Rt

Oh, they have the internet on computers now?

TheEPIC

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Onslaught of Xen

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No thats a lie perpetuated by Al Gore. He never really made the internet.

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

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Mo/

wtf is the internet?

and to anyone who has an mp3 of anysort i would say about 98% of them do, atleast once.

oh and even before relase dates... would that be ilegal?
i would suppose so seince they have copyright before they even make there first album.

MC Chris gave out his album for free off his own site; he's the evil spider/elderly guy/worm from Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the manager of the generators in Sealab 2021

Hockster

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Still legal in Canada.

Xue Yi Liang

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockster
Still legal in Canada.
... also isn't the age of consent in Canada 14 years? Sounds like a wacky place.

zehly

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
- Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment V - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.

Your Honor, In order to protect my own self-interested, and by virtue of the Constitution of the United States of America, I hereby invoke my fifth ammendment right.

conker

conker

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nowhere

none

Does limewire count? it tells me its legal..

Lag Hell

Lag Hell

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doooom
I have no idea what you're talking about. I can't even conceive of how someone would do such a thing. wat he means is, any music that is FREE off the internet is illegal, and yes, we all do ^^

zehly

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The Wired

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Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by conker
Does limewire count? it tells me its legal.. Visit RIAA @ www.riaa.org (Recording Industry Association of America) and the MPAA www.mpaa.org (Motion Picture Association of America).

Virgo

Virgo

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Join Date: Jul 2005

SC, Charleston

W/Mo

Yeah...and a bud told me this:

You view art in museums...so art=public
art=artist
people who right music are artists
so....

music=art
art=public

If no one understands....go jump on a trampoline, and I'll be dling a bunch of techno

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

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Northern CA

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Mo/Me

property = theft
therefore
theft = property
therefore
it's mine

(j/k)

zehly

zehly

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The Wired

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgo
Yeah...and a bud told me this:

You view art in museums...so art=public
art=artist
people who right music are artists
so....

music=art
art=public

If no one understands....go jump on a trampoline, and I'll be dling a bunch of techno 1. You can view dead animals in museums too.
2. Museums sometimes charge entry fees.
3. Art != Arist. Non sequitur.
4. People who write music can be composers as well. Or lyricists. What is music?
5. The rest of it is flawed due to the antecedent being flawed.

Nice try though. Unfortunately, they tried that infront of a federal judge, and he didn't buy it.

(Some do, though...)

PieXags

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Meh, I get what I need when I need it how I can.

Experiment_Jon

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Cover!

TheEPIC

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I wouldn't say that downloading music is stealing... It's resourceful. College students' way of making up for lack of income.

Monseir

Monseir

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IM da shiznit

The Shiznitz

W/Mo

lol ^^ you have a point there

smurfhunter

smurfhunter

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my w/mo uses mending, orison, and healing breeze. you cant kill him.

Sand Scorpions [SS]

W/Mo

i have a better question: who DOESNT download things illegaly?

Signet of Humility

Signet of Humility

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well i dl
Illegal Shit Alot
*COUGH * CAREBEAR!!
hmm ah something was stuck in my throat ^^

sino-soviet

sino-soviet

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Israel before, CA now.

R/Me

The general consensus is that pirating and downloading stuff illegally actually hurts the revenue of the companies' severely. However, how many of us would actually buy cds and dvds if downloading wasn not an option? I sure wouldn't. I think people are forgetting that the vast majority of people who download illegally would not spend money otherwise. So no harm done.

chris_nin00

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Quote:
Originally Posted by sino-soviet
The general consensus is that pirating and downloading stuff illegally actually hurts the revenue of the companies' severely. However, how many of us would actually buy cds and dvds if downloading wasn not an option? I sure wouldn't. I think people are forgetting that the vast majority of people who download illegally would not spend money otherwise. So no harm done. I never though about it that way...
I wouldn't buy DVDs or CDs anyways....
Dumb companies.

This should be read by everyone. Great post soviet.

ManadartheHealer

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Awaiting GW2

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I buy very few movies, I simply rent them (why the hell would I want to watch it more than 5 times?). And I don't really have that much music, but I do buy it. But, honestly, I'm not going to sit here and whine about people who download illegally. If I thought it was unfair, I would DL too. And I would never dream of a record company going under

And, as said before, a person who downloads for free would never buy the thing in the first place anyway

TheEPIC

TheEPIC

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In my bed

Onslaught of Xen

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I usually buy my music, I had bad experiences with filesharing programs madly slowing down my computer. Even when I decided to be a greedy person and disallow all sharing. Anyways, I like having the original medium, I dunno why.

Personally, I don't care about people downloading crap. Have fun, it's not like it has affected me.

02prove

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P/W

its illegal i dont download it and this is not a real person speaking its a fake ip and once the FBI get here the not real person wont be gere

sino-soviet

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R/Me

Bearshare is decent.

TheEPIC

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It just has a really stupid name and desktop icon. But I know it works.

TheEPIC

TheEPIC

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It's a government conspiracy. They promote illegal activities to weed out those foolish enough to listen to them.

kg_lildude1

kg_lildude1

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Lionheart Braves [LHB]

W/

downloading music illegaly is no thing to throw around, you can get 5 years in prison and/or fines upwards of $250,000

yes downloading without paying if it is not free is stealing
you are stealing the intellectual property of another person when you do so
why do we do it?
have you ever seen anyone actually prosecuted for this?

looks to left*looks to right*pulls out cell phone*calls FBI*ok they fell for the bait!*
/end sarcasm