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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
I see no point in criminalising a large percentage of society, especially when it's those people who keep your industry going. When the method of identifying "criminals" by IP address is deeply flawed and when the law itself is only supported by a small percentage (in this thread under 15%). I don't even feel morally wrong because now I just get to buy the items I actually enjoy.
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If you ask people whether they'd like to be able to take whatever they want free of charge, or if they want to pay for it, my suspicion is that the majority of people are going to say that they'd prefer to get it free. But that's a very short-sighted attitude: it will only work if honest people buy the content to make it worth while producing so that the illegal downloaders CAN get it for free.
Nobody is "criminalising a large percentage of society" except those people themselves. You know damned well that you're breaking the law, and you choose to do so. Please don't say that someone else is making you a criminal - you're doing it yourself.