Downloading from Pirate sites

It's different from lending a friend a book or CD. Pirate sites are "lending" to thousands of people and thus stealing from the author of the works. It's no different than someone standing on a street corner and handing out free cds that they've burned from an album. They are robbing the artists of sales. Sure, it's tempting but you know it's wrong, it's theft pure and simple.

I admit, I do download a few movies. The problem that I face quite often now is that many download sites and especially torrent sites are trying to charge you for the privilege of illegally obtaining copyrighted material. Since they openly accept credit cards, which must go into a legitimate bank account, how is this not noticed by their local law enforcers? I can only say that the predominantly U.S. based sites are being allowed to operate by a corrupt administration. The music and movie industries have the resources to stop this practice, but they too obviously don't want to do so for whatever reason.

I know someone who shares music. BUT... that person mostly shares music ripped from vinyl and isn't available on cd, and a LOT of it is older stuff either owned since childhood or bought at Goodwill

I tried to download a pirate but got a sea scout instead! No parrot, wooden leg or eye patch. Just a spotty youth in a neatly pressed uniform. I'd ask for my money back but it was an illegal download so I daren't reveal who I am. Really, you'd think that just because someone invests in developing themselves as a pedigree product they would have the decency to come to me even when I don't want to pay. I shan't do it again. Better to pay and get the real deal. It's probably unethical too.

I download music, movies, or TV series occasionally. I try to do my best in supporting original stuff because the people behind the production of the stuff we enjoy need to live and pay bills too. When I can't find the movies I like on DVD stores here, that's the time I download the movie. Other times, I'm undecided whether to buy a DVD or not so I download to get a preview by watching the first 15 minutes only then decide. As for music, I buy CDs especially when I like most of the tracks. If I only like a certain song, I would download it. My sentiment is that we don't have anything like an iTunes or Amazon online store to buy specific songs, movies, and TV shows available in our country. Either I cannot find them in our local stores or I just don't have the space to keep the discs/DVD boxes. Also, coming from a third world country, DVD/CD prices here can be expensive in comparison to the minimum wage. I don't know if downloading can really be justifiable. This is just my case though.

pirating is illegal and therefore unethical. as much as i would lvoe to have music and movies for free, i don't do it, i've never done it and never will. you can be fined and go to jail for it and can't really be justified since it is illegal.

I download music regularly, and films rarely. When it comes to music, it's not a whole lot different than going to Youtube and playing one of the music videos over and over, or going to the library to borrow a CD, which I also do regularly. When I was a kid I used to make mixed tapes by recording radio programs and pausing the recording during commercial breaks. I don't think downloading is too much different than that. The thing is though, if there's an artist I truly enjoy, I will still buy the CD when I can afford to. I do like to try to support my favorite artists instead of constantly just downloading their music. Though I have to admit one year when we were broke I made my husband a CD from downloaded music of his favorite artist because I could not afford to buy the CD.