I download illegally. I am a criminal.

DVDs: The majority of the DVDs I upload are DVDs that I own. Others I ones I borrow from friends/family. Others are the ones I download online.
Music: I buy cds that I know I like 5 or more of the songs on it. I upload music from them. But I do download a LOT of music illegally. Normally because I only like 1 or 2 of the songs on a cd and don't want to pay $20 for 2 songs.

My beliefs as far as sharing DVDs or Music goes... well I believe if I buy a DVD and I want to share it with a friend - I would let them make a copy of it. The same for music. I don't remember there being this big of an issue of copyright infringement when the mediums where VCR tapes or cassettes. Those were copied and shared and not much fuss was ever raised - well, what's the difference now? Other than you have a bigger community from which to share and recieve.

Programs: I would say that I legally own maybe 25% of the programs on my computer. I would also say I only actually use about 50% of the programs on my computer - the other 50% are just setups/installers/etc.

Games: Yeap, still a criminal. I can say however that the only games on my computer are pretty much just pc games from BigFish/Reflexive/etc. Any game requiring a disk (with the exception of "The Game of Life", I bought.

So yeap, I'm a criminal. I find stuff illegally and then I share it with others. Send me to jail, I'm sure I'm much worse than that serial killer from down the street.



Bad Angi!

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