illegal downloaders should be punished or not?

it's incredibly hard to track, not to mention illegal for your ISP to sniff your records. Legality issues also vary between countries, and although some countries (in europe) are trying to stop it, its never going to stop. Is it illegal? yes. Can you likely get in trouble for it? Not likely, unless you do something really stupid.

I think is illegal..

For the most part, the only people who get in trouble are those that supply, if you will, the copyrighted material. I don't think it's very bad for people to download music like this.

What? I can't believe it. Download music shouldn't be ilegal. This is the future. The discographies will create pages where you can earn money and buy CDs or Dvds.

In my opinion, all illegal downloaders and downloading actions should be punished.

You see, downloaders are breaking the law and need to be punished obviously. And from the point of those music and film industries, illegal downloaders and downloading actions should be punished for they are suffering due to file-sharing.

Although it is a big problem for too many people are file-sharing, but perhaps we can stop pirates via cutting web access.

no, its completely legal to share with friends, but not legal to share with strangers thats stupid

it may be illegal....but many people is using this.....There are many free websites available that offers free musics, free videos, and many other things....And they are running from long time....I think all people just use this sites for downloading musics and more...no one prefers to buying the music tracks....why anybody goes to buy something if it is available for free.

It's a good way to save money, but it's a choice of saving money when under financial problems. The warez companies and pirating companies have actually become a optimal source of advertising as they give "trials" so the downloader can spread the news to their friends. After a while of advertising, the downloads are cut off so the users can buy the actual product.