Why do you pirate online?

There are many reasons I pirate:
1) Lack of availability, I don't have an apple device/credit card/itunes account. My taste in music is fairly obscure and Music stores don't tend to stock the music that I listen too.
2) Lack of ads during movies and shows
3) Money saved
4) Convenience of choosing when to watch shows/movies (and being able to pause)
5) To check things out before buying
6) Better quality (I don't own a blu-ray drive and there aren't too many 1080p dvds)
 
-edit: should look at thread date before posting. :S

Billy said:
Springbok Radio programmes are part of South Africa's Heritage and were wilfully destroyed by the SABC. How can they sucessfully defend their copyright if the only copies are with Pirates?
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Haven't heard about that radio program before, but how do you know the SABC was destroyed? And if it was destroyed how is it that you can still buy it from the SABC?

http://www.springbokradio.com/archive.html

Or is that a different program than what you were talking about?
 
borga said:
-edit: should look at thread date before posting. :S



Haven't heard about that radio program before, but how do you know the SABC was destroyed? And if it was destroyed how is it that you can still buy it from the SABC?

http://www.springbokradio.com/archive.html

Or is that a different program than what you were talking about?
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"Since the creation of the Society, we have had a very close relationship with the South African
Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Radio Archive, to which the whole collection of the Society was
donated in 2011."

Or in other words, the pirates have given copies of the programmes back to the SABC who destroyed the originals.
 
It used to be a pain in the ass to get stuff. I'm not a person who likes to go to the music store etc. I have to admit with iTunes amazon books, etc I've been pirating a lot less.
 
Since I started using Zinio, I buy most of my magazines now. I started subscribing to Netflix and Hulu Plus for TV series and movies and really enjoy it.

My main reason is that DSTV sucks. They charge way too much for what you get and there's no choice within the available bouquets. I really, really don't want the horse racing, fashion, espn classic and a whole truckload of other channels I pay for but don't watch.
 
I used to pirate almost all my games but since using steam the only game I have pirated was mass effect 3. And that us simply because I don't want origin on my PC. Of they released the game on steam I would buy it in a heartbeat.
 
I don't pirate online. Can't afford the bandwidth. :rolleyes:
I let my friend(s) do it for me and I just take a flash drive or HDD along.
 
Shayd said:
I used to pirate almost all my games but since using steam the only game I have pirated was mass effect 3. And that us simply because I don't want origin on my PC. Of they released the game on steam I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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Agreed, there is very little reason to have to pirate games these days with Steam, Humble Bundle and Good Old Games.

There are still a few games that are released at absolutely outrageous prices (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, etc.)
I will boycott those games in protest! :p
(Starcarft 2 doesn't have LAN play anyway, so I don't really want it).
 
Billy said:
"Since the creation of the Society, we have had a very close relationship with the South African
Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Radio Archive, to which the whole collection of the Society was
donated in 2011."

Or in other words, the pirates have given copies of the programmes back to the SABC who destroyed the originals.
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Do you have more info on this? Why was the stuff destroyed?
 
Garyvdh said:
There are still a few games that are released at absolutely outrageous prices (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, etc.)
I will boycott those games in protest! :p
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You could pirate it initially, then buy the thing a year down the line on sale :)

Conscience loophole? :p
 
I do because I'm poor... I can't justify spending over R100 on a dvd/cd. It's also just a lot easier and more convenient. No DRM, forced anti-piracy ads, use restrictions (whether dictated by DRM or format compatibility), etc.
 
Legit:
Old content
Over priced
Crappy service
monopolist ownership... yes, looking at you DSTV.
Adverts (I freaking hate is when disc has unskippable adverts "coming soon to the theater near you, Pirates of the carribean 1!")
Inconvenient show times
Not provided in a format I prefer (who wants to lug out DVDs when a media centre is much better?)
Price.

By far the worst of that lot is DRM. Treated like a criminal while the criminals get the BEST hassle free experience.
 
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