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Illegal Downloading Your thing??

  • 02-01-2012 05:54PM
    #1
    lcrcboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭


    My question is this do you download allot of music, movies or other software quite frequently illegally or would you tend to try and download more often legally. Give reasons as well. The two main reasons I often here for both sides are:

    Illegal Downloading: The music and film industry are two big and to powerful, downloading a few songs wont affect their profits, plus those industries need to change.

    Legal: I try and support my favorite artists so I download legally, plus those industries especially the music industry are facing a massive decline in sales resulting in music labels not backing new artists anymore and sticking with current well established artists.

    And what do you think needs to change for you to stop downloading illegally or for other to stop downloading illegally.

    Do you download Illegally? 367 votes

    Ya I do it all the time
    0% 0 votes
    No I never do it
    80% 296 votes
    I only do it when I cant get hold of music, or other software from online stores like Itunes
    11% 42 votes
    Who cares
    7% 29 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I reserve the right not to indite myself! :D


  • #3
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    I download, therefore I am


  • #4
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    We meet again IMRO. :pac:


  • #5
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    I seem to have missed the 'No, I never do it button'.
    Oops.


  • #6
    lecker Hendl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭lecker Hendl


    Isn't it illegal to share the media, and not to download it. I don't seed anything anyway and don't ever download music.

    Movies, well, I've said too much.


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  • #7
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Downloading is old news, streaming is where its at now. Someone else can break the law I'll just watch.


  • #8
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    I download all the time but it's more of a try before you buy kinda thing as if somethings crap I just erase it and never think of it again whereas if I DL something and it's good I'll go and buy the item.


  • #9
    johnners2981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭johnners2981


    Its tough to do anything illegal with dial up :(


  • #10
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    I once downloaded the internet back in the late 90's. Of course the internet was a lot smaller than it is today but connection speeds were much slower so it took approximately 4 years to complete.


  • #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Would you download a pizza for free?

    Stop destroying lives you evil down loaders.


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  • #12
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    lecker Hendl wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to share the media, and not to download it. I don't seed anything anyway and don't ever download music.

    Movies, well, I've said too much.

    I think its only illegal to distribute copyrighted movies, music etc.. for profit or gain.


  • #13
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Would you download a pizza for free?

    Stop destroying lives you evil down loaders.

    Fcukin too right I would. That would be brilliant.


  • #14
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


    Fcuking right I do.


    I don't feel guilty about it either.


  • #15
    lecker Hendl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭lecker Hendl


    pdbhp wrote: »
    I download all the time but it's more of a try before you buy kinda thing as if somethings crap I just erase it and never think of it again whereas if I DL something and it's good I'll go and buy the item.

    well that's just ridiculous. Here's a free car that you can keep. Oh I like it, here's 20k.


  • #16
    chiloutus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭chiloutus


    I download almost all my music illegally. I started back when albums were 20euro a pop and a single would be 10 euro in shops. I figured the prices were just too high. Now with Itunes (Which I hate!!!) making things a little cheaper it is hard to justify my piracy. But I don't lose sleep about it because I know all involved in making the music are all much much richer than I will ever be.

    Now Software I would tend to buy the ones that I would be using day to day. But I would normally use freeware as it is less restrictive eg. OpenOffice.

    Games however I would never pirate because I believe that if you shop smart you will always get your moneys worth and those involved really care about there fans. (Valve!!)


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    You wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a car :eek:


  • #18
    lecker Hendl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭lecker Hendl


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    You wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a car :eek:

    I'd clone them though


  • #19
    DjFlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    lcrcboy wrote: »
    And what do you think needs to change for you to stop downloading illegally or for other to stop downloading illegally.

    Content needs to become cheap enough, and accessible enough for piracy to become a waste of time.

    Services like Rdio, Zune Pass, and Spotify are examples of doing it right. I would be totally happy to pay €10 a month for unlimited music. They've already proven to be successful strategies in the US. Sadly, there's not much of an equivalent here.

    I'm an Eircom customer, and if they bothered to make a phone app, and a desktop program for their MusicHub, I'd happily use it all the time. But they don't seem to have any interest in making the service good.


  • #20
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Would you download a pizza for free?

    Stop destroying lives you evil down loaders.
    MungBean wrote: »
    Fcukin too right I would. That would be brilliant.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76055405

    There's so much demand it simply has to happen. Surely people are working on it...


  • #21
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Im so far in the red with downloading pirated material, its now at the stage where i just walk into a shop and take the milk and walk out without paying.


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  • #22
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Dotrel wrote: »
    I once downloaded the internet back in the late 90's. Of course the internet was a lot smaller than it is today but connection speeds were much slower so it took approximately 4 years to complete.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg


  • #23
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Yep and dont feel one bit bad about it. Long may it continue.


  • #24
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    my local cinema cant keep up the 'previews' of movies i have in my sitting room.
    I have overeager students clawing at my window.
    That said Mission Impossible 4 was alright. Might have gone to see that in the cinema....if i'd have had to.
    Im a pirate


  • #25
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Pfft, the people who don't download just don't know how to. :rolleyes:


  • #26
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg


  • #27
    Spunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    lecker Hendl wrote: »
    I I don't seed anything

    This is the real crime here.


  • #28
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Spunge wrote: »
    This is the real crime here.

    Indeed it is. I try my best to seed, but its a bit hard when my upload speed is 40kb :(


  • #29
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,751 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Used to be a bugger for downloading. Last Easter, I promised my wife I would stop. Didn't happen fully though. However, I am making more of an effort by subscribing to Eircom Music Hub. I also use iTunes as well. If Netflix comes in, and when I get a telly that streams from the net directly, I will use it, and won't download illegally anymore. Hopefully Xtravision will bring in a similar online service so that the money will stay in Ireland at least


  • #30
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I don't do it on an industrial level like those people who may or may not have given me terrabyte hard drives of movies, but I may or may not have gotten the odd film from time to time when I was at a lose end.

    Considering the scale of corruption and the complete lack of a moral compass in our society that has brought us to ruin, I can sleep easily having downloaded an aul fúckin film. Thats if I did download one at all.


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  • #31
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    I download a lot but I think a system like radiohead used where you could pay the price you want to pay for it would be preferable. I think music is overvalued to be honest.


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