Honestly, how many of you have pirated software, music, movies, games, etc.?

Question

I am just curious as to how many of you guys and gals have pirated before? I myself am guilty of pirating, so I am just truly inquisitive. Also, how many people do you estimate pirate in the U.S.? What are the chances of me getting in trouble for getting Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise on two of my P.C.'s (worth at least $300), Partition Magic (at least $50), and a Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 9 ($150)? My excuse is I am a silly, young, nieve child

Answer 1

me

Answer 2

I'm from Mexico City and there are pirate copies of anything you want. A movie can be as cheap as $5 (that's five PESOS) on a DVD that costs $3 when it's still blank (or virgin, as we say). They're not hard to find. They're sold almost at every corner, especially in places with a lot of people, including tourist areas.

By the way, One dollar = Ten pesos, so it would be like $0.50 (fifty cents of a dollar). One euro = Fourteen pesos, so it would be like 0.35€ (thirty-five cents of an euro)

Oh, I know a place that has stands (like hotdog stands) out on the street. If you buy 5 movies, they charge you only fifty pesos. You can find movies that are not yet in movie theatres, but they don't have a very good quality.

Answer 3

wow...what a Question. I have "pirated" hundreds of titles. games..movies, apps,...even a few books. I'm not sure of the amount of people who DL illegal material, but one program I use (azureus,..I use three shareaza, azureus, and limewire pro) says the amount of people in the network...This number is almost always over 1 million. I figure thats maybe a quater of the people who use bit torrents..so, the number of people is up there...10 million total? that includes p2p as well..just a guess. but 10 mil....oh and clomtancy...just paste your crack into the program directory, and delete the main program exe...

I have a friend who has Charter high speed internet. I tried to get him going on bit torrent DLs. A few days later he got a letter from his isp telling him to stop downloading illegal material, or they would be forced to take legal action. Need less to say he stopped.

Here's the thing. It is TOTALLY LEGAL to download a copy of material you already own. This is what makes it so hard for the copyright owners to sue, or have charges pressed. How do you press charges, or sue someone for something you can't prove. ( how do they know you don't own ms office. they can't hardly find out until they sue, or press charges( discovery process). And they can't sue till they know...lol...so they've begun legal action against the BT search engine sites (mininova, isohunt, pirate bay etc.) but they have no control over who legally dls, and who does not, that's why the bt search engines have been winning thier court cases ( pirate bay just won a big one).
So ..until they find a way...go nuts...dl all, and everything..cause I think they'll eventually find a way to stop it..get it while the gettins good!!! awsome question!!!

Answer 4

I don't like to pay bags of money on games, movies and others just because they are "original"...so I prefere to buy them cheaper, pirated. And I don't think I'm the only one who's doing this...

Answer 5

tons of movies but havent had a lot of success with games yet.

trying to figure out cracks still

Answer 6

maximum of them are utilising the pirated one ... i dont prefer to encourge you to apply the pirated one ... decide for the direction variations and while you're happy with the utility , then decide for the unique one ... attempt to stay away from utilising the pirated one, as much as you could ...

Answer 7

me I LOVE SERIAL SOFTWARE TO GET MY STUFF FOR FREE YAY I LOVE BREAKING THE LAWWWW ITS SO FUN AND THEY DONT CARE THEY ARE TO BUSY WITH OTHER STUFF WARS FROM IRAQ AND STUFF