Piracy, when is it legal?

[timmytom1]

I suspect by the time i read the last page (after posting this) the flame war will be rageing once again....

OT:question1:No the ticket only admits you once ,if you own the DVD (the proper one i mean)then it`s kinda a grey area

Question 2:This is again a bit of a grey area,but if you genuinely have lost the game then i think it may be legal as you have technically paid for the game

Question 3:I strongly suspect the answer is no unless somewhere along the line the original broadcaster has either A:Relwased the show into the public domain ,thus makeing it legal or the slightly shadier 2 :the company has gone out of buisness and no one owns the IP anymore,makeing it abandonware of sorts (though i think a certain amount of time has to pass for this to be legal)

Question4:Sounds like a bit of a grey area to me ,i`d assume it`s legal...just

question 5:As i understand it takeing copies of albums/singles you don`t own (or indeed takeing things/copies of things) is illegal and thus no ,though the laws vary massivly depending on where you live

Question 6:well that`s just plain wrong ,no you have no right of ownership over a rental DVD and thus doing that would be blatantly illegal

one positive thing to come from pirates (in the music industry at least) has been the removal of the ridiculous limited use DRM on songs after a certain amount of uses ,which was extortion but realizing they were loseing a lot of buisness to borderline pirates (i.e people who only pirate because it`s easier/get what is technically a better product as you have no limitations in this case)were brought back to the paying i`m among that group of people who pirated music simply because i wasn`t going to stand for what was essentially a legalsed racket as i saw it.

Wait, they put limited use on music? How the hell did they expect that to work? DRM protection is a joke. Thanks to the ability to record anything that is playing on your computer, with your computer, and make a perfect copy.

Serioulsly, they put limited use on music?

On the early MP3`s(well on certain sites anyway) yeah, wierd it`s not something people remember

 

[CrysisMcGee]

Wow. Never thought this would create a flame war. Thank you for answering my questions.

 

[Slayer_2]

Modern Warfare 2 on the PC, because Activision is full of dicks. Seriously though, piracy is never legal, no matter what. You probably won't get caught, but that doesn't make it legal.