careful, the idiots who cant read are going to interpret your logical post for you posting "its perfectly ok to steal content".

Theft is theft. 39.95 or 39 million. It costs the original producer. So if you are stealing, stop crying about being stolen from.

That was the point.

:2 cents:

If you are in the music business, then illegally downloaded music sucks for you.

If you are in the software business, then illegally downloaded software sucks for you.

If you are in the porn business, then illegally downloaded porn sucks for you.

What business are YOU in?

TUBE SITES SUCK SHIT!

lol ironic because you fall into the same group of idiots.

you are a fucking retard.

I am not crying on a message board about tubes.
I am not threatening to leave GFY.

The point is, if you are stealing, stop crying on the boards about it.

I know you are an dim witted idiot and all. But try and stay on topic k?

idiots in this thread.

Robbie I am sure doesn't care half as much if someone just d/ls his shit from a torrent. However watching somone else post it for free and profit from it really bothers him.

Sure neither is right.

Paying for things is the way that people 'vote' in a capitalist model. When you buy songs by an artist... the artist makes MORE songs. When you buy porn from a paysite it updates more often. When you buy software they make better versions of that software.

Not paying for things in the 'free world' people think they live in is the number one reason why product quality overall sucks as compared to the past. As more people figure this out free will fade away (and so will poor quality), eventually being replaced by what we had before.... high quality products worth buying and people who pay for them. :2 cents:

So am i to understand that it doesn't matter that tube sites full of stolen content exist as long as they don't profit from it? And all this time i thought that we were supposed to be pissed off that they were full of stolen content.

Both are wrong, but it really is a matter of math. If one person steals a $40 software key the loss to the software developer is $40. If the person publishes a stolen software key and 100k people download and use the stolen key the loss to the developer is $4 million. If someone shop lifts a $40 item and gets caught the likely punishment is probation. If a person gets caught stealing $4 million there is a good chance they will be spending the next 20 years in jail. So basically the difference boils down to one is a misdemeanor and the other is a felony. So IMO there is a difference a big difference.

You are to understand that having your members area image in my cache or in My Favorites is one thing.

Having all of your members area content published on my own series of unlicensed content re-distribution networks where I make a living giving away your baby's milk money is quite another. Dont you agree?

only thing illegal on my computer is my copy of Windows XP, because no one should have to pay that for that piece of shit.

Sinclair

I can admit the only time I may be guilty of digital theft is when I occasionally watch a youtube video and they have some music playing or I am not 100% sure they own the material.
Of course I do not consider acts of parody theft, which it is not. I also would not feel it is theft if I watch say the original night of the living dead online, since I have a purchased version in my video collection. I also know I can watch all the southpark online I want, because the creators have given permission many times over. Though I rarely watch it and can not think of the last time I watched any online. Oh wait once I did rewatch the last 5 minutes or so because my cable cut out. I did this with heroes once too when my cable cut out and I do pay for cable.

No downloading songs unless the wife is doing it from itunes or if she is after classical stuff and no I am not talking classic rock. Software wise I own everything on my machines unless it is shareware or freeware. Typically I will send in some money for both if it is any good and I use it often.

sure there is
it depends on what the video is, and did you pay for it

if for example you download a tv show that you could have watched on tv station you subscribed to, then you are using the torrents like a vcr and that is just as legitimate

if you are downloading something you have never paid for, then it wrong.

likewise if you making a parody of a video, changing the audio or the subtitles and uploading that perfectly legitimate

if you are taking it content and simple uploading it with no changes whatsoever that is wrong

safe harbor is designed to make sure that the former is not censored/eliminated when the copyright holders go after the latter.

ARS is getting into illegal tube sites too?

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