Which is worse, walking into a store and grabbing a movie you want, or downloading it from the Internet?

Question

I'm talking about theft.

Answer 1

Are you trying to prove a point?

It's like MP3's... no one seems to remember the 80's when trading tapes was the big thing... people would make tapes for their friends, mixes and such, and hand them out like cookies. No one said boo about it then, but now that it's worldwide and the greedy record companies are feeling the pinch a bit more, ooh, bad bad.

Same with movies. I remember growing up my friends and I would copy beta and vhs movies left and right and share them with each other, again, no one ever said boo.

I go to the movies to see movies I really want to see on a big screen. I download most of them afterwords.

Answer 2

Technically they are the same end result. However, the retailer paid for the copy and that is all Hollywood cares about. Why? Simple, the royalties were paid when the retailer bought the movie wholesale. The studio is not out any money, only the retailer is.

When you download, you deny everybody thier cuts of the profits. The studios are relying more and more on movie sales instead of box office reciepts. If people download movies illegally, the studios are not getting the money they need to operate.

When you shoplift you only deny the retailer from his share of the profits.

Answer 3

Which is worse or more likely to be detected earlier? Walking into your home and stealing your wallet or accessing your personal financial records via computer and stealing all your money?

They are both theft. And anti-detection methods suceed in doing one thing and one thing only, and that is breeding a smarter criminal. If you want to stop crime you need to create a society where everyone has equal access to all goods and services.

Is this possible? Probably not but we are going backwords, not forwards, as we consistently dangle desired items in front of people who cannot afford or do not have the values and morals to abstain from theft.

Peace.

Answer 4

first work on your communication skills...you mean stealing the movie? thats what you should have said...i have grabbed up a movie in the store, then walked over and paid the rent for it, nothing morally bad about that...down loading it, not even sure that should be a crime since its on the internet and you can view it, the criminals are the ones who put it on there,also many movies have benefitted from the publicity., but usually the internet copy is awful

Answer 5

morally no different, on a practical level the chances to the individual of getting caught are very different. from the thieves point of view clearly grabbing the movie is worse.

Answer 6

Walking into a store and grabbing a video you want.

Answer 7

Grabbing a movie in the store is worse because there is force or threat that is employed.

Answer 8

I'd say grabbing it is worse because it wastes resources. If you can get something without using getting more physical objects get the thing that saves space. This is environmentally speaking.

Theft may be bad, but I do it myself because our society in this current world does more than enough to promote such actions.

Answer 9

for the police, grabbing it is better, but for the thief its worse. the possibilty of getting caught is more likely in a store. unless one in ur family is a good person and reports u

Answer 10

when you say "Grabbing a movie you want" do you mean Stealing a movie you want? If so, that is very bad, and very dangerous/ Downloading is thievery too.
Have you no legal options?
Is there no library near you?