The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums

  • Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community

    In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
    If you do not have an account, please register.
    REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your Info

    To register, turn off your VPN; you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.

  • Hi Guest - Did you know?
    Hot Topics is a Safe for Work (SFW) forum.

Am I the only guy that doesn't see anything wrong with illegal downloading?

  • Thread starter Thread starter refujiunderground
  • Start date Start date
csb999 said:
you are STEALING nothing ever . The word is COPYING . The whole point of shoplifting or theft is something must be taken nothing every is . Ever . The crime is infringing legal rights of an individual not removing an object . Not a single thing is ever reduced ever .
Click to expand...

semantics - potato, potato, tomato, tomato. Stealing is stealing - no matter how much dressing you put on it to make is sound innocent.
 
JockBoy87 said:
Harm in every case is not required.

Stealing is a violation of public trust, without which society could not operate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes
Click to expand...

To define it as stealing, yes. But I never said it wasn't stealing.

That's different from claiming people are harmed or that money failed to trade hands that otherwise would have.

What cost has been incurred to the record label when I right click my mp3, hit "copy", and paste it into another directory?

$0.00.
 
figjam said:
semantics - potato, potato, tomato, tomato. Stealing is stealing - no matter how much dressing you put on it to make is sound innocent.
Click to expand...

This statement only has any relevance if someone were arguing whether or not it's stealing, which no one is.

This is like a discussion where people are trying to talk about "HOW is being gay bad?" and someone is just repeating "being gay is bad."
 
Instead of this being a thread involving Stealing vs Copying, what if this was a thread about Kidnapping vs Cloning ?
:D
 
refujiunderground said:
with that said, i download music, movies, porn, and damn near everything that i can get my hands on the internet for free. who wouldn't? :p just got my hands on some hand to find porn that i'd have to go over on a torrent for and DAMNIT, i'm happy. :-<

Moderator comment: The first 25 posts were split from the 'Confessions' thread to create this one.
Click to expand...


I hate the fact that the person posting the original question (refujiunderground) gives no feedback on the questions posted....
 
figjam said:
I hate the fact that the person posting the original question (refujiunderground) gives no feedback on the questions posted....
Click to expand...

In fairness to him he never meant to start a thread discussion about it.... many confessions are hit-and-run, it was the mods who decided to split it out.
 
xbuzzerx said:
This statement only has any relevance if someone were arguing whether or not it's stealing, which no one is.

This is like a discussion where people are trying to talk about "HOW is being gay bad?" and someone is just repeating "being gay is bad."
Click to expand...


You are as far off topic as gold fish are off ducks...

xxbuzzerx - read (really read and comprehend) before replying....
 
figjam said:
You are as far off topic as gold fish are off ducks...

xxbuzzerx - read (really read and comprehend) before replying....
Click to expand...

Oh, I did. You said stealing is stealing no matter what.

Which I pointed out-- no one disputed.
 
JockBoy87 said:
No matter how teasingly low the apple is to plucking, how stealthily you can pluck it, or how wealthy the apple tree is, stealing from it is still wrong, and it is still a crime.

Why shouldn't entertainment stars be worth millions? They have made something enriching for the whole dreary gray world that nobody else has ever made, and after all, public market forces are the ones that determine how much they are worth.
Click to expand...

People are still gonna go to the movies and watch TV, those stars will still get paid. It's harder to sell music now, but it an artist sells his music to a commercial they can make money or they can make money with concerts. The biggest losers are the porn industry, they somehow they still manage to get by.
 
Coward92 said:
I download everything I want to play with and if something is really good (and I'm looking at you MAss Effect first episode) I go and buy it in the store.
Click to expand...

Illegal downloads are called exactly that for a reason....
 
figjam said:
Illegal downloads are called exactly that for a reason....
Click to expand...

Doesn't make it theft. And also, if the industry isn't adapting to easy internet sharing services, then it's the industry's problem. There are many things they can do to counter piracy other than directly persecuting it, which simply does not work.
 
Rolyo85 said:
Doesn't make it theft. And also, if the industry isn't adapting to easy internet sharing services, then it's the industry's problem. There are many things they can do to counter piracy other than directly persecuting it, which simply does not work.
Click to expand...

that same argument says: "If girls wear short dresses the they are asking to be raped..."

Sis!

- - - Updated - - -

Rolyo85 said:
Doesn't make it theft. And also, if the industry isn't adapting to easy internet sharing services, then it's the industry's problem. There are many things they can do to counter piracy other than directly persecuting it, which simply does not work.
Click to expand...

You are scarily wrong.....
 
All I am saying is, piracy exists and can't be controlled. Also, apart from some very isolated cases, it does NOT harm anyone (unlike rape, what sort of retarded comparison is that?) and no product gets stolen.
 
illgetbi said:
I'm curious to hear quasar's explanation of why he (they?) decided to split it out.
Click to expand...

He and KaraBulut both said, in teh thread, that it was supposed to be more of a confessional and not a thread where people were debating or getting into topics that should be their own threads. Kinda killed the discussion for a couple days. ;)
 
The RIAA Has Now Forced Google to Remove 10,000,000 Links...


This is what the war between the music industry and Google now looks like. Because by law, Google doesn't have to remove anything from Search without a proper takedown notice. But they do have to act when the notice arrives, even if there are millions of them.

See the new strategy? As of this morning, the RIAA has now sent a collective 10,000,000 takedown demands, for member labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment.

This is the latest official DMCA takedown report from Google (updated January 31st).

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130204riaa/
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top