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| Never allowed to use a computer or phone ever again | 31 | |
| Take all their money and property away | 4 | |
| Go to jail for rest of their life | 6 | |
| Death | 33 | |
| None, Im a greedy theif whom steal's whatever I want! | 295 |
Send them a computer virus that is impossible to get rid of that changes every single downloaded music, movie or game file into a rickroll. It also hacks their webcam and records them getting rickrolled time and again, and posts it to youtube. And then it sends them that video. Which turns into a rickroll at 2:44. The virus also allows them to play their games, and kick ASS like never before, for a good 30 minutes, untill right before they declare total victory, then they get rickrolled.
Nah, I don't care. Musicians don't make hardly any money off of music sales, never have. It's made from concerts and stuff. Look it up, it's true------> http://alturl.com/p749b
I've talked to a ton of musicians who have said they totally support music piracy and think (and I agree) that it's good for the BANDS, not so much the record labels.
All the games I download haven't been on the market in a long time, mostly playstation emulator stuff, but a few oldish PC games too. I'm not going to buy a rare playstation game off somebody from ebay for $80 when I can download it for free.
It's human nature. It will never go away. It's not like EVERYONE does it either...only the tech savy ones.
tie them down and make them listen to "It's a small world after all" on repeat for 1 year straight.
i love stealing shit. i steal at work, i steal on da interwebs, i steal at school; i love to steeaaalll!!
What a load of crap! If something can be downloaded for free, why shouldn't it be downloaded. It's not like millionare actors and singers have so little money. If I download a couple of songs, the singers aren't gonna die from starvation. I support downloading stuff. And why ask this. Aren't there more serious things to worry about?! Like murderers, thieves, scammers, vandals, rapists... Just let the guys that crack games and put music up on piratebay alone. Go after and KILL all thieves, scammers, rapists, murderers and vandals!
O....K so those punishments are serious over kill I mean if we can't put rapists and pedo's to death why should we care if someone downloads a bit of music.
I'm an internet kleptomaniac... So naturally I don't want to be punished for my sins :)
speaking of witch does anybody know any good sites to get some movies ive been on the hunt lately always looking for new sites to use you know what im sayin
When I first read the Title I was like:
What's THAT 'bout Jack Sparrow?!
I download the games because they're already pirated in my country , for example COD MW 3 cost 3$, Fallout New Vegas 1$ ,FIFA 12 1$. so why buying them when i can enjoy them for free?:)
What about a fine.
You're poll is not well-made due to its lack of realistic options.
Its not that big a deal those punishments are way to hard and no i dont like pirates...
I always pay up if I can. Most musicians prefer illegal downloads IF it means that more people get to hear their music, BUT if all of the people who downloaded illegally had instead paid, I'm sure they would prefer that even more.
I pay because I don't feel comfortable stealing when I have enough money to pay. If everyone paid, music would be cheaper and live music would be cheaper to experience. Just because it is online, and just because most people do it, it doesn't mean that you are not taking money out of the pocket of people who have rightfully earned it.
Yeah, right! Back when you really had no choice but to pay, so pretty much everyone paid, music cost a fortune! $20 for a CD? $10-12 for a cassette? And this was 2 decades ago, when $20 was a LOT more money.
Plus you can't really say that every pirated item would be bought. I mean I downloaded many, many songs that, if my only other option was to purchase it, I'd have passed on it (I DID pass on it, for years, untill d/l'ing came around). Ice Ice Baby, MC Hammer, those types of songs...come on.
The industry has changed a lot in 10 years. The market leaders have changed. If more people buy, the industry makes as big a profit if it charges less, and draws more customers. Basic economics.
And I was talking hypothetically when I was converting all illegal downloads to purchases. I know it wouldn't work like that, I was just saying that I'd like it if it did work like that.
I think it really HASN'T changed, and that's the problem. If they had rectified pricing and made music available for purchase by other means, sooner, then illegal downloading wouldn't have become as big of a thing. Thing is, people had no choices for legal downloading for far too long, so even people who maybe never would've done it, now find it to be normal and inconsequential. We had far too much time to 'get used to' illegal downloading.
I totally agree that people are too used to the privilage of free music for it to be easy to change the law. A better way would be to change culture, and that is damned difficult. If laws were changed earlier it would have been better, but governments are always years behind technology, which is a big problem in itself.
It's not even a big deal. Who wants to pay for a song thats almost a dollar? Rappers, and bands already have so much money just from concerts.