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With POPA and PIPA and ACTA and what not going down, this seems a good time to discuss what do you steal online?
How do you justify it... if you bother to justify it at all?
In general I think getting something for free over the net that you could have paid for fairly is a bad thing. But then again it's so easy!
Obviously a fan-edit enthusiast has certain views on the legal grey-areas of the download. I own a legal copy of every fan-edit I have, including a copy of stinkin AOTC that I had to go and buy just to have the "Attack of the Phantom."
I've stolen a few movies off line that were not otherwise available, the "Lensman" anime and the film "Over the Rainbow" are a couple.
Otherwise the only movie I straight up bootlegged when I could have paid for it was "X-Men Origins Wolverine" which came out the weekend my son was born, and dammit I was stressed and wanted to see it!
I download a lot of music, but most of it I delete after a couple listens. The stuff that I keep on my iPod I own legally, and if I really like something I do buy it (not often, most music bores me). This doesn't make it legal of course.
If I miss a TV show sometimes I'll torrent it, but only if it's not available for streaming on the channel's website (a lot are these days).
I also download computer games. I'm an enthusiast of old adventure games, and most of the ones I play fall into the legal greyzone of "abandomware". I'm not a stickler on that, and I'm sure of the ones I download are still for sale somewhere if I bothered to or wanted to look.
I'm not claiming to be paragon of online virture obviously.
What are your views and experiences in the online world of 'piracy' and what not?