Is it okay to buy pirated CDs or download movies?

It hurts the movie company in some way. But these movie stars are getting in term of millions. Of course their loss is also in term of million but I wonder if the loss of these companies or the actors is comparable to the gain of these poor customer. What's your view of photocopying books for personal use? Thanks for responding. I have rated your post since there is sincerity in your post. I am not sure if other guys will agree with you though!

You are right in saying that theft is against the law. But what do you say of photocopying a book? Some say that if one is not using the pirated material for making money then it's ok. Well, I find it difficult it to justify, but I can understand who needed the material so much yet can't really buy it. Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. Rated your comment.

I am not that interested in music so I don't download songs. Moreover whichever songs I want to listen I can do that through youtube. However, I love watching movies so it's hard not to download movies at all. But I never knew that some people got caught and they got into trouble. Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I understand what you are saying. But I am not so sure if the situation of the user provides sufficient excuse from the power of legal binding. Okay nobody will arrest you for doing so, but does that make it legal? Once we grant that such thing is legal then whole lot of issues emerge. We can similar thing for lot of other things too by giving such excuse. Do you think society will be able to function well even if we say that some cheapers thing are okay to be duplicated? What is cheap for some may not be so for others. So where do you set the standard? These are my questions too.

What is this median price? And how much do you think should be the median price of Window in India? Well, I appreciate your view and thanks for the interesting discussion.

our country is not rich, we have many people suffering without food... i say that the median price should be brought down...our country's standard price are affordable by the people, for example, i can buy a moser baer DVD, its affordable, every body can buy it obviously, but i can't go for a movie james Bond's Casino Royale it is RS.1000, original DVD from united states($ 20 dollars) so , my point of view is not standardization, it is to bring down the median price between the country, $ 1 = Rs. 47...so if they bring down the median price, everybody can afford to buy the original Products... well in United States, Windows 7 Ultimate costs $ 320, where in my country it costs RS.15,000...you see, i'm a student and i come from a middle class, how would i afford to buy that??? so bringing down the median price is the only way to standardize and stabilize the situation...

That was bad. How will they pay such a huge amount of fine? But in a way, he might be caught because he was trying to generate money through pirated CDs. After if one is a DJ one must be making money out of those pirated CDs. What do you think of photocopying books? Rated your post; and thanks a lot for sharing your view.

But we also get lot of movies from the internet with good quality. I was wondering about them. There are CDs which are just the same as the original one in term of quality, but can be pirated. I think even here many people might be using Windox which is pirated. I wonder how many can afford original stuffs. Thanks for your comment anyway.