Should stricter laws regarding illegal downloads be enforced? [ENDS 24/01/2010]

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

It is a crime. It's like running into a shop, nicking a dvd and going out with it. Oh my bad, robbing shops these days don't "matter". Let's not focus on it, shall we? :rolleyes:

I think that yes, maybe enforce more stronger laws against it, but only as serious as if you robbed it from a shop.

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Your analogy isn't accurate. It's more like running into a shop, using magic to create an identical copy of it, leaving the original and walking out with your own copy. The original copy is still intact in my analogy and in actual piracy.

Even If they do come up with stricter laws for it i doubt it'll work

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Originally Posted by DrLacero

Your analogy isn't accurate. It's more like running into a shop, using magic to create an identical copy of it, leaving the original and walking out with your own copy. The original copy is still intact in my analogy and in actual piracy.

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>>PIRACY<<

Both are illegal. :eusa_clap and yours just fails with logic anyway, at the beginning it is running into a shop but buying the cd downloading it / recording it then distributing it, which is still, yes, illegallll.

dunno why i rubbed illegal in so much, i do it in every day life downloading pokemon emulators, Movies, family guy & music :eusa_danc

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

It is a crime. It's like running into a shop, nicking a dvd and going out with it. Oh my bad, robbing shops these days don't "matter". Let's not focus on it, shall we? :rolleyes:

I think that yes, maybe enforce more stronger laws against it, but only as serious as if you robbed it from a shop.

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Yeah, lets enforce the same penalty on robbing habbo furni as we have on robbing peoples television sets from their houses because afterall as you say yourself, both are stealing and illegal.

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

It is a crime. It's like running into a shop, nicking a dvd and going out with it. Oh my bad, robbing shops these days don't "matter". Let's not focus on it, shall we? :rolleyes:

I think that yes, maybe enforce more stronger laws against it, but only as serious as if you robbed it from a shop.

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It is actually nothing like that. Yes it is illegal, but you are not depriving the shop of a copy of the song/movie/game. That is the major difference.

Anyway, no I don't think so. You are going to end up making criminals of teenagers who would never actually do anything properly criminal. You can say that if we were to completely eliminate illegal downloading then the music and film industry would pick back up but its not strictly true. Alot of people who download would not buy the music if they were unable to download it.

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Originally Posted by Voiceover.

and yours just fails with logic anyway, at the beginning it is running into a shop but buying the cd downloading it / recording it then distributing it, which is still, yes, illegallll.

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I gave an analogy, you said what actually happens, you fail.

It is not the distribution which most people partake in anyway, it's the downloading from others (or in the case of torrenting it's both).

because you could download something that hasn't been distributed illegally?

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Originally Posted by Voiceover.

because you could download something that hasn't been distributed illegally?

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Well yes you could, but that was not my point. Read it again:

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Originally Posted by DrLacero

It is not the distribution which most people partake in anyway, it's the downloading from others (or in the case of torrenting it's both).

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the downloading is not the illegal part... It is unfair to the owners, but the illegal side of it is posting it / distributing it.

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Originally Posted by Voiceover.

the downloading is not the illegal part... It is unfair to the owners, but the illegal side of it is posting it / distributing it.

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Both are illegal.