Poll: Piracy dilema kind-of

[tippy2k2]

I've given up on trying to convince people that stealing is wrong at this point but I'll go ahead and say this:

I've bought Starcraft three separate times because I've lost the disk. Just because you were either irresponsible or unlucky doesn't give you the right to take a new copy. I don't ever think there is a good reason to pirate anything but that's just me.

 

[cookyy2k]

Long story short. I bought the Mumford & Sons album a while back when it was new, I left it at a friends and thought, oh bugger, I have no longer got any contact with him. A while on I remembered how much I liked that album and bought it again. Unfortunately my car was broken into recently and they took my radio and all my CD's.

It was one of a very few albums I hadn't backed up on my laptop.

So the poll question, is it acceptable if I download that album?

I guess I just want to use the collective morality of the internet to back a decision I want to do. So yeah, cheers for your input.

Oh also sorry for another piracy thread.

Think of it this way; Game publishers, record companies and movie studios have for a while now being trying to convince everyone you don't own the data on the disc only the licence. Well if that's the case you own 2 licences, you never owned the data anyway so you should legally and morally download the data as many times as you want. However the publishers etc. want to have their cake and eat it so it is illegal (in some countries, but not others), but certainly not immoral.

 

[Zen Toombs]

If one accepts piracy to be wrong, I still can't say that what the OP is describing is wrong. It may be, but I can't say with honesty that I think it's a bad thing to do.

NOTE TO MODS: Not a pirate, and I don't support piracy.

[sub]please don't hurt me[/sub]

 

[2733]

think about it this way, if you made music would you begrudge someone in your position for illegally downloading your album? I wouldn't.

also someone mentioned youtube to mp3 which I thought was illegal, but I'm now being told is not, does anyone know for sure?

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

If you bought the album it's yours... go for it...

...hell! I personally feel that you can doenload anything as long as you plan on buying it eventually (assuming it's worth being bought of course)...

 

[bad rider]

Unfortunately my car was broken into recently and they took my radio and all my CD's.

Did you collect insurance on your stolen items? If so, buy a new album.

I didn't get fire and theft on the insurance, besides if you do claim on it, it throws you premium up too much to cover the value of the cd's and radio. (In my opinion at least.)

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

I'm usually against piracy, but if you've already bought the game/album/movie/whatever in question, then you have a right to download as much as you want; you've already done your part to support whomever produced it.

 

[Astoria]

You've brought it twice so I'd say it's perfectly fine for you to do so. The owners have already gotten twice the amount of the money you would've paid them normally. If you feel bad about it though then maybe just go buy it again.

 

[Maze1125]

The law changed because 99% of people didn't realise they were breaking it and it was utterly unenforcable.

Exactly.

The law isn't just "what is written down", it's also what actually gets enforced. A crime that can't be punished, or a situation any sane judge would throw out, is, in every way that matters, essentially legal.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Morally its fine, legally you could still get in trouble.

 

[Wintermoot]

you already bought the rights for one CD it would be downright stupid not to replace it with a digital copy.

 

[zombie711]

It really depends on how comfortable you are with piracy.
Personaly I would just see if the music is on youtube, which it usually is, most likely on vevo.
Also Tread lightly. Piracy are the land mines of the Escapist. One wrong move and your through.