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Copying rental DVDs ?
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Anonymous
| Agree with 18:57 |
Anonymous
It's still illegal. And it does mean that you probably aren't spending as much on legal DVD's. So everyone is worse off. You are watching things you don't like very much. Somebody's DVD's got copied illegally. And someone you do like made less money because instead of buying a DVD from them, you watched the copied movies. |
--but then I also had a long discussion with a friend about whether it is okay to leave a one-price-buffet-type restaurant while still eating a muffin, or whether it is technically stealing/hoarding if one doesn't consume all the food while still physically in the restaurant, LOL). Anyway, here is my own personal moral decision: I agree that copying is piracy and wrong, and does not fairly reward the artists, etc., and deprives people/industries of their rightful earnings. So, I have decided that I won't copy things that I or others would otherwise pay for. I have decided, however, that I am comfortable copying things that I would truly never otherwise pay for (and I mean really, not just rationalizing to make me feel better, LOL). So for example, I wouldn't copy a DVD that I would otherwise buy (one that I plan to watch a lot, for example), but I would copy a DVD (assuming it is even possible because I haven't tried it) from the library that I wouldn't pay for otherwise (one, say, that I am in the middle of watching and won't watch again, just to save me from having to renew it).
Anonymous
THIS is the funniest post of the day! 
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Anonymous
Remember the movie Risky Business. Sometimes you gotta say what the ______ 
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Anonymous
Are we in China yet? |
Anonymous
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To those that are 100% against it:
Have you ever made a mix tape for anyone? You know, way back in the day when cassette's were popular? 
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Anonymous
| Not a problem if you bought all of the songs on the tape. Same situation if you used your friend's copies of the song. |
Anonymous
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No, wouldn't do it.
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Anonymous
Are you an anti-copying person saying this? I don't see how making a mix tape to give to someone else is any less "wrong" than copying DVDs. Even if you bought the songs, you're now copying them so someone else doesn't need to buy them; and if you're making the mix tape from your friend's music collection, you're copying her songs instead of buying them on your own. BTW, I don't have many qualms about copying music or DVDs, but I don't do it very often either. |
Anonymous
| I'd do it. Don't tell those idiots lawyers, though. |
Anonymous
| Explain how this is any different than a five finger discount from a store? Would you take a book from a bookstore without paying for it? |
Anonymous
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No. It's wrong.
And it's distinguishable from a mix tape on a couple of levels -- one, you probably owned the albums from where the songs came already; two, making a mix tape (even if you ultimately give it away) is part of your personal use of the CD that you paid for; three, you weren't copying the entire CD and giving it away in lieu of someone buying it (thus the "mix" aspect). Number three was especially true in the days that most of us made mix tapes/CDs, i.e., the days before iTunes when you could not easily buy just one song at a time. |
Anonymous
You mean I'm not supposed to copy music CDs ? I've been doing that for 10 years. 
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Anonymous
| Not to beat a dead horse, but a reading of the FBI warning at the beginning of every film should answer this question. NO! |
Anonymous
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I recently had this discussion with some friends and we gt stuck one 1 thing:
What if you copied songs off the radio? Plenty of people used to tape songs off the radio - is that wrong too? The artist is putting it out there for free. We also all used to record TV shows. Now that you can buy tv seasons on DVD, is that still wrong too? |