| It's not theft because theft is defined as something completely different. Piracy is Copyright infrigement which was already tried. I'm not going to say it's not illegal - it is. I have no problem with it being illegal, but I do have problems with how it's redefined as the "big corp publisher" sees fit. At various times "piracy" meant among other things: - playing purchased media on a different player than designed by the publisher - playing purchased media in a different country - making own copy for private use on a different device, or in a different format - breaking disk protection so you don't have to use publisher's spyware - buying used media from previous owner - downloading albums from internet if you already own the cds - using/printing/copying purchased item more than X times (when this fact is not stated in big red letters on the outer packaging) - downloading a copy of some album/book/... if they are not legally sold in your country and cannot be obtained easily enough (for example distributor/producer not shipping items from japan to europe, or country-specific "bonus tracks" on albums you otherwise own) - using abandonware I remember at least one article claiming each of those to be "piracy" (apart from the last point, which actually is a copyright infrigement now, but i believe shouldn't be). I believe each of those points should be completely legal and are valid use cases, but many publishers claim otherwise. Also you make the common mistake of "The thing that the musician lost is their revenue". No - they have not lost anything yet. I might actually like the album which is why I'll buy it later. That's what happened with all albums I have. I download it, if it survives a couple of days without deletion, I'm most likely going to buy it. I'm not going to claim it's currently legal, but unless you're into mega mixes of whoever's on top in pop right now, you've got little chance to check if you really want the whole cd. At least in UK with very limitted choice of on-demand streaming. Re abandonware, availability and country-specific items. I don't care how "illegal" it is. If I can't buy Samla mammas manna albums from '70s then noone's losing anything here. Same with anime which is not dubbed - I'd pay for subbed version, but for whatever reason it's not sold here and I'm allergic to bad dubbing. Bonus tracks are self-explanatory I hope. |