Poll: Piracy and you?

Copyright infringement.

  • Yes I do it often (Serial copyright infringer)

    Votes: 246 29.6%

  • I do it, but also purchase legit copies

    Votes: 278 33.4%

  • I do it very occaisionally (i.e. a handful of times), but generally purchase copies.

    Votes: 187 22.5%

  • I'm a reformed character and have started from scratch

    Votes: 77 9.3%

  • I've never done it.

    Votes: 44 5.3%
  • Total voters
    832
I remember from my last Isp, I got 999 credits per month for free to download music legally ( enough for 1 cd per month), and it only proved to be a pain in the ***. It flipped every time with a cpu change, and after 3 cpu changes I'd have to buy the music again, I was unable to sync it to my mp3 player due to drm restrictions, and I could only burn it 3 times ( and it didn't work, it wouldn't play in any cd player...).

Any form of protection on music should be banned from ''legit music''. It only made me download the music in a nicer format ( FLAC or 320kbit unrestricted mp3's) instead of DRM-ed 192/128 kbit wma's.




As for the poll results, lmao, those anti pirates are in a very very small minority, 15.5% hahahahahaa, I should have expected that, but from the amount of people moaning about piracy on OcUK ( and because most people on here are rather rich people) I thought there were more of them here. Guess they will always be a tiny minority :).
 
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AcidHell2 said:
yes it has. How hard is itunes, amazon, 7-digital, sky songs etc
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Read the above, none of those carry it at a quality that is the same as a CD, itunes does not even carry it in MP3 (I think, I have never used itunes though), itunes still has DRM on audiobooks.
 
rypt said:
Read the above, none of those carry it at a quality that is the same as a CD, itunes does not even carry it in MP3 (I think, I have never used itunes though), itunes still has DRM on audiobooks.
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As nice as flac is, how many people can actually tell the difference between it and mp3 at 320kbs. 320kbs is very high standard and you can't tell the difference. Pretty mcuh everything IS DRm free now.

There is virtually zero stereos or mp3 players that play flac. So it isn't goign to happen unless the hardware is there first.
 
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AcidHell2 said:
As nice as flac is, how many people can actually tell the difference between it and mp3 at 320kbs. 320kbs is very high standard and you can't tell the difference. Pretty mcuh everything IS DRm free now.

There is vurtually zero stereos, mp3 players ha play flac. So it isn't goign to happen unless the hardware is there first.
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I would happily take an ABX text to prove otherwise.

It's just a case of having equipment good enough to tell the difference.
 
Apart from a few xbox 360 games, I download everything else.

I condone piracy in most cases, except where there is some benefit to me for buying its legitimately - ie xbox live wont work with pirate copies.

**** the industry.
 
AcidHell2 said:
As nice as flac is, how many people can actually tell the difference between it and mp3 at 320kbs. 320kbs is very high standard and you can't tell the difference. Pretty mcuh everything IS DRm free now.

There is virtually zero stereos or mp3 players that play flac. So it isn't goign to happen unless the hardware is there first.
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If MP3 320 is good enough then why are CDs still of a higher quality than MP3 320...
There is no downside to offering the same content at multiple quality points and in multiple formats.
Why can iTunes not have: 192MP3, V0/2 MP3, 256MP3, 320MP3, FLAC, <apple format> options.
Then when you buy the track for £0.99 (or whatever it is), you can download it however many times you want, in whatever format you want.
 
Used to pirate PC games but not any more, now With Steam and other DD services and good pricing I purchase All my PC games now via DD, Music I download all the time but usually purchase anything that I like (In CD format), been doing that for years now and the more music I find I like on-line the more I purchase legitimately, the only things that I download these days that that doesn't get purchased are television serials, although as soon as digital distribution improves with that type of medium in the UK then I'll purchase those also.
 
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Yamahahahahaha said:
I would happily take an ABX text to prove otherwise.

It's just a case of having equipment good enough to tell the difference.
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If you have equipment that good why not vinyl. You have to accept you are in a tiny minority and as such will have to pay a premium for old formats.

rypt said:
There is no downside to offering the same content at multiple quality points and in multiple formats.
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band width and storage space. A lot of extra cost for very few downloads.
 
I used to only stream movies/TV shows. I'd then buy the ones I like. I only started downloading in the last three months. I download what I can't get legitimately, or that which is difficult/ridiculously expensive to get legitimately.

Illegal downloads have forced the entertainment industry to drop their prices and embrace the internet (albeit very slowly). Piracy is a good thing ;)
 
I used to download lots back in the early 00's but i've progressively slowed how much i download by a massive amount, if i want a song, i'll use youtube to listen to it, it's more that i can't be arsed downloading these days lol.

I do however have quite a large cd / dvd collection so i've paid (and still do) my contribution to the industry
 
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