Why do you pirate online?

Err, I don't know about you guys but for me, it's because generally doing it offline usually results death on the high seas, probably by a broadside from a British warship. I try to avoid that as far as possible.
 
Why I Pirate

Media
If I were to legally buy an HD Movie online, it would subsequently cost me about 3x+ the cost of the movie to download + watch it. I'd rather copy it from a friend to make it semi affordable.

Games
1.) Any game worth buying, I buy. Unfortunately, with the ludicrously small / non-existent content demo's, it is generally incredibly hard to tell if a game is worth buying. I pirate a game, and - If I find it decent - I buy it.

2.) Ever tried to buy something on Steam in South Africa without using a Credit Card / Cheque Account?
 
OGroteKoning said:
Synology NAS 12TB .... :p
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Amateur :)

OT: People will always come up with justifications why they pirate but it's as simple as the lure of free stuff being too much to resist.

Most people download far more than what they can consume and in that lies the answer somewhere. Maybe it's our anthropological nature to hoard?
 
jannievanzyl said:
Amateur :)

OT: People will always come up with justifications why they pirate but it's as simple as the lure of free stuff being too much to resist.

Most people download far more than what they can consume and in that lies the answer somewhere. Maybe it's our anthropological nature to hoard?
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Not everyone watches a 300mb rip on their 14" crt :erm:, but yes I'd bet that everyone that had uncapped for the first time at least in the first month go mega leech. I had.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Amateur :)
OT: People will always come up with justifications why they pirate but it's as simple as the lure of free stuff being too much to resist.
Most people download far more than what they can consume and in that lies the answer somewhere. Maybe it's our anthropological nature to hoard?
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HD movies now come in at around 20 to 50 Gb a pop! ;)

TV series can be as much as 2 Gb per episode.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Amateur :)

OT: People will always come up with justifications why they pirate but it's as simple as the lure of free stuff being too much to resist.

Most people download far more than what they can consume and in that lies the answer somewhere. Maybe it's our anthropological nature to hoard?
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correct. If you get that uncapped adsl and you know you can go ape wit it.....well then you start do download things you really do not need. 20gig on a game that last for 4 hours. why because you want your monies worth.
 
doobyscoo said:
Music on radio - legal
Music downloaded - illegal
I fail to see why.
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Music on radio - rights holder gets paid each time that song is played
You download music - rights holder gets nothing

doobyscoo said:
Music wise, they make their money off concerts
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Concerts have always been a loss leader to sell more records. Touring can be an expensive business that rarely pays itself back in full unless you have something to else offer such as merchandise, a record etc.

Piracy won't become irrelevant even if access is easier and pricing more reasonable. When Radiohead offered InRainbows for a "pay what you want" deal, they found that a majority of downloads were not through their site (even with the option for free being available) but rather through BitTorrent sites.

Stafford Masie is confused, drinking too much of the Google kool-aid. Internet companies love piracy without content most Internet companies are blank and irrelevant pages.
 
There are a lot of programmes that have never been released on any media. I feel that these are fair game as they are impossible to obtain from the copyright holder.

In some cases the copyright holder has destroyed the original, eg BBC, SABC, there are probably others, and if it were not for the Pirates they would be lost.
 
On a serious point, it's amusing to note how often regional zoning nonsense is brought up as a reason, yet analysts very rarely address that.

I just got a PS3 as gift from my trip to India, it's blu ray region C, so is useless to me as a blu ray player here (Sadly the person who bought it even considered the region lock & asked about it. Guess what, most blu rays in India are region free). Hey Sony, guess what, I was kinda thinking about buying blu ray disks, but now I think I might invest in hard drives instead.

Since I got signed up to iTunes, I think the last album I downloaded was in 2010. The flipside is just browsing through CD's in Musica is painful because of the insane prices. I've saved more on books than my Kindle cost, books on Amazon are cheaper & available much, much faster & not even talking about the crazy amount of choice. If I get a iPad or Fire, I can magazines & comics and boom, I'll almost never walk into CNA again.

In that respect, people are like electric current, they'll take the path of least resistance (where resistance is mostly a combination of price & ease of use & some risk analysis.) As a retailer, middle-man or publisher who's gonna lose out, you can choose to try to put up barriers on the other path or you could lower your resistance to draw more current. It's actually simple economic theory I think. Blade also eloquently put across a point about uphill ice skating that seems quite apt for this situation.
 
Billy said:
There are a lot of programmes that have never been released on any media. I feel that these are fair game as they are impossible to obtain from the copyright holder.

In some cases the copyright holder has destroyed the original, eg BBC, SABC, there are probably others, and if it were not for the Pirates they would be lost.
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Stil that doesn't give you the right to download it without the copyright holder's consent. Once the copyright on the recording expires, well then it is fair game.
 
deweyzeph said:
The answer, at least in a South African context, is simple: there is no alternative. I pirate because I want to watch the latest shows and movies when they come out. I don't want to wait a year before they come out on Mnet.

If Netflix or Hulu was available legally in South Africa I would use it and be more than happy to pay for the content that I watch. But it isn't, so I don't.
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AstroTurf said:
Cause I do not like the regional options provided to me by the supplier.

Why wait for 2 weeks, months or years to watch something I can watch today, whats thye point of watching something with references to something that happened 2 years ago?

Kill regions for all content and I will buy it when it comes out new (instead of when it comes out old in my part of the world)
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roguemat said:
Give me Netflix, Hulu, and Zune Music Pass and I will be a happy chappy.
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I agree with all of the above. I haven't pirated one game since getting Steam. I'll do the same with movies and series once a comparable service emerges.

themba990 said:
I pirate because... I can
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Above person is an ass.

Beri said:
Sad thing is that to download a movie in SA is not cheap. if you are on mobile data.
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That's why you should be on uncapped.
 
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