Poll: Thoughts on internet piracy?

[krooton]

Weirdly, I buy all my games and music now, but movies and tv shows.... notsomuch.

 

[spudbynight]

Internet piracy is wrong. It isn't stealing though.

 

[Amp34]

Well who'd have thunk it...

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/pirate-bay-ISP-blocks-useless/#continued

The Pirate Bay's new network is making ISP blocks useless

Despite global efforts to put the kibosh on infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay (TPB), the lair of internet swashbucklers is proving almost impossible to sack. Swedish police succeeded in taking the site down late last year, only for it to reappear the following month. And stronger than ever it seems, thanks to a new distribution partner that inadvertently circumvents most ISP-level blocks. When TPB rose from the ashes, it drafted in middleman CloudFlare to help deal with the colossal amount of traffic coming to the site.... In the UK, where all major ISPs were strong-armed into blocking TPB in 2012, this has all but turned back time, with thepiratebay.se now accessible for Virgin, EE, BT and TalkTalk customers. Sky is the only popular provider still managing to block the site; you aren't notified, as such, but the page won't load anyhow.

Internet-1
Government-Nil

 

[McGray]

Plus they have product placement in every TV show these days anyway.

Interested in what products are in GOT?

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Interested in what products are in GOT?

Every home has got one now come one...

http://www.valyriansteel.com/shop/

 

[boxman2000]

Only TV programs. I pay for Sky where the shows are on anyway (granted with some delays) so the way I see it is I'm paying for it anyway.

The argument about torrent (etc) downloading of music is that the music industry is 99% of the time completely doing over the genuine talent and grinding out the garbage that tweenage girls want to buy. Everyone knows the real money is made from touring and next is merchandise. I will always support genuine musical talent as much as buying an album actually supports them (for the few pence they earn!)

 

[Kulealshi]

Piracy is what the net was made for,long may it reign

I would have thought pornography would outrank any piracy protocols in terms of bandwidth!

In regards to piracy, I do pirate quite a lot I must say, I'd be kidding myself saying otherwise. I always pay for games through steam as it's far more convenient than the hoops you have to jump through to install pirated games. Prices for PC games are a bit of a incentive also.

Movies, check, Music, check, Software, occasionally. Always pay for my android apps though.