Illegal file sharing on the Internet, what should we do?

People buy things if they deserve to be bought.

You like a film, you buy that film.

You like a game, you buy that game.

Most pirates pirate because they want a "demo" of that film/game before they buy, sadly now a days, companies have become so good at spin that it becomes hard to tell the difference between tripe and spam.

Take gaming for example.

I recently downloaded FEAR 2, played 15mins off it, hated the game and deleted it.

2 months ago i downloaded sim city 4, really enjoyed it, went to my local high street gaming shop and bought it with the expansion, deleting the digital copy.

This is my way of supporting things that deserve it. (EA is questionable though)

In the case of gaming, demos are so appalling and 1 sided that they often show you the best bits and the rest of the game is rubbish, essentially tricking the public into buying a crap game.

In regards to films, well i just purchase the films i know i like, download the ones i think i'll like and subsequently purchase them after (if i like them) watching the download.

Why pay money for dog **** when you can try it first and see if you like it?
 
Mr Kingston said:
i believe that there is way to much money made in the music and entertainment world, this is why people download stuff illegally because they dont want to pay the hefy price tag.

How many of ocuk users have a legal copy of an operating system ?

my answer is a guess and i say less than 70% of ocuk users have a genuine os
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hell no!, and bill gates can just suck my floppy if he thinks im paying for windows :p
 
nex20 said:
With films a lot of them get pirated when they come out on dvd. You download the copy of the DVD and there you have it, a perfect quality DVD for £0
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And as the films are released in other parts of the world first some films are pirated (some even in Blueray) before they hit the cinema here.

People are living in a dreamland if they believe all those adverts in the cinema about saying who wants to watch a cam version of the film when they can watch it at the cinema.

Maybe if they dropped cinema prices then more people would go back to watching them at the cinema.

Pirated games are worse, they are out sometimes months in advance of the actual release. If you look in the pc games threads you will see lots of threads about games being pirated before peopl get their preordered versions.
 
QlimaxUK said:
hell no!, and bill gates can just suck my floppy if he thinks im paying for windows :p
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So you either use Linux exclusively or Windows everyday?

If you use Windows everyday surely that means it's good enough to fork out a bit of cash for?:confused:

I very much doubt that 70% of people use a pirated copy of Windows on this forum, judging by the expense some people pay to get the latest hardware, they will more than likely spend a relatively small amount of cash on an OS.
 
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bloodline76 said:
Maybe if they dropped cinema prices then more people would go back to watching them at the cinema.
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Last time I was in the cinema the prices were quiet reasonable (admitedly that was in Germany around new year), but what with me hating what humanity turned into, seems kinda "gay" to go to a cinema alone :D. Funny aside, new films generally tend to suck, at least I dislike them so not much point going.
 
ColdAsIce said:
I actually own a cineworld pass, £12 a month and can see any amount of films that are showing. Haven't been using it enough lately though :/
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I'd have to see 3 films a month to make that pay for itself... I generally only see about one film in three months!
 
Dj_Jestar said:
Are you deliberately stupid? Serious question, I am seriously beginning to think you are intentionally this dumb.
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A lot of people pirate XP because it's so easy to (a lot probably bought it originally though), and just have random copies of it lying around which are pirated. Most people though who use Vista have bought it though because it's not as easy to pirate it.
 
making things cheaper and more easily accessible.

i'm sure many will agree with me on this, that Steam has stomped out a lot of piracy.

the same method won't work with video/music (ie, drm), but if you could download using a steam-like app, then do what you want with the content, people will be more willing to do it..

especially if say this app had 'burn to DVD', 'copy to media player', 'copy to phone' wizard type options within it, aswell as being able to simply browse the media via explorer

we've all used torrents and newsgroups, for linux distros, etc, mainly for the speed at which we get them, then you still have the small hassle of unpacking etc.





having a "one program does all" approach for downloadable media would rock. basically, like iTunes, except cheaper, and not rubbish.

even at 10p per song, 50p per tv episode, £1 per film, they'd make a killing.
 
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