Question about Piracy
 

use of copyrighted material without permission: the taking and using of copyrighted or patented material without authorization or without the legal right to do so
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This is the definition of Piracy from the MS Word dictionary. This whole "piracy" thing confuses me. Downloading movies, games, programs, etc. from p2p networks is considered as piracy but isn't everything downloaded from p2p networks illegal? Many people use these networks to look for songs to burn onto a CD and sometimes they ask someone on the forums if they know of anyone who has a particular song they're looking for and they never get into trouble but when someone asks about a movie their post is edited because they were talking about pirated material. I have nothing against people who want to download illegal porn, songs, games or whatever. If that's what they want to do then all the power to them. I just find it odd that someone asking about a movie they were trying to download would get scolded from a moderator for talking about piracy yet it's okay to download copyrighted songs.

This whole thing is just way too screwed up!:confused:

CS ... I think people asking about songs get moderated just as much as movie requests. The problem is no one really knows what is copyright and what is not. Hundreds of Grateful Dead Concerts are freely available and totally legal (not every concert but a huge number and as long as no one is making a cent profit from them, and a lot of other music and other files are totally legal. Someone recently asked about a programme he had downloaded and couldn't get to work, and some one said HEY PIRACY!!!. but it was a piece of Freeware, he just wanted to know how to make it work!!!

It seems an inquiry about a 50 year old song does not get pounced on with the same venom as the latest Harry Potter movie and I have yet to see a request for an old film Ah yes ... they were all deleted:D

So not everything is illegal and apart from the legal music, there are photo's, archives of all sorts and so on. The whole thing is way too screwed up ... probably:)