I only do it so that I keep the torrent community alive!!!!!! hehe.

I spend on software that I like, a bit like RelicDuDe..... (excluding MicroShaft)

DVD's well the movie industry doesn't seem to hard up...

Music, I pay for my music, maybe not the market value but I pay......



Long live sharing, it makes the world a better place.......

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I do ...
... or do I ?

in Canada we are still in a grey zone about this. A law was about to be passed 2 years ago but the government fell, perfect timing

here's the complete list of what I "legally" own :

• unreal tounament 2004
• no one lives forever 2
• splinther cell chaos theory
• flatout 2

that's it ... lmfao

FYI.. i didn't buy M$ Vista.. i got it send to me for free .. being a small computer repair company, i need to know how to repair it.. That helps M$, and keeps me well provided on everything needed... like food.. So they always supply me with a copy on CD/DVD.. Maybe thats in error, i don't know.. but i am not complaining..

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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I take what is offered to me. If it hursts the companies so bad then maybe the MD/Chairman shouldn't be getting a 30 per cent raise with bonuses every year, while the workers get .5 per cent below inflation. God bless this Earth and all the stupid sheep in it. What a tangled web we weave....

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What can I say, I agree. My views on economics are often not agreed with. Unfortunately, the words are not my own. They are part of a song. I recommend listening to the whole thing.

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I agree. But Trying to come up with a workable way of change the way our system works on a national or international scale is something that God would struggle with.

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It's not something that will be figured out in our lifetimes. Not unless something radical happens. But a good place to start would be seriously examining which occupations have the most worth. The bubble-gum singer or the 8th grade math teacher....

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The dustman.. or the manager ?...

I use it as a test if I like it I buy it as for many years I have bought album after album or rented or bought a tape dvd only to find out its sh*t and wasted a lot of money the worst offender being games for the ps/ps2 ect