Your views on illegal downloading.

[Hazzles]

anyone monitoring this?
is it safe to say i'ma nub + limewire?
if its not, I dont

[Mentor]

It's a business. It can't run without the money it makes.

And Skajo, go ahead and taunt me all you want, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. But please, go ahead and tell me the next time you're working with Peter Kay and Collin Farell. At least I have the skill to work as an Executive for a multi-million pound company, right?

Musician's generally make the bulk of there money from performing their music live. CD sales only translate in to a very small part of their earnings - most eaten on the long chain down to them.

If music is good, people will pay alot to see it and the musiction will be fine. The people who are set to loose out are the middlemen (RIAA/recording industry) The people who make the music, honestly probably profit more from piracy than they loose "/

Radio got the same reaction to start with.

[lick]

It's a business. It can't run without the money it makes.

And Skajo, go ahead and taunt me all you want, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. But please, go ahead and tell me the next time you're working with Peter Kay and Collin Farell. At least I have the skill to work as an Executive for a multi-million pound company, right?

Yeah you worked with them and im miley cyrus and live on mars

[Misawa]

Yeah you worked with them and im miley cyrus and live on mars

WorkING, not worked. And when I'm allowed to give out my IMDb page, you will see.

[Mentor]

WorkING, not worked. And when I'm allowed to give out my IMDb page, you will see.

Your fully free to give out your IMDB page at any time you wish, its an independent and public record o.0

This is also getting off the original topic of piracy, which the impact of is hugely exaggerated.

[Misawa]

Your fully free to give out your IMDB page at any time you wish, its an independent and public record o.0

This is also getting off the original topic of piracy, which the impact of is hugely exaggerated.

Yes, I am, but I like to protect our business as much as possible until things are announced publically.

[Mentor]

Yes, I am, but I like to protect our business as much as possible until things are announced publically.

Getting them listed on IMDB is making them public. Even IMDB doesn't know about things its not told, i also strongly doubt the userbase on habbox is likely to make of break whatever your producing "/

[Skajo]

And Skajo, go ahead and taunt me all you want, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. But please, go ahead and tell me the next time you're working with Peter Kay and Collin Farell. At least I have the skill to work as an Executive for a multi-million pound company, right?

You're older than me, of course you have the skill. I'll start giving you the respect you want when you step down from your high horse and give other people and companies the respect that they deserve.

Give me 4 years and I may well have the necessary skills to work along side high profile actors with multi-million pound companies. I congratulate you for AGAIN using your position (which, to be honest, I've seen nothing of - a film, a trailer, your name etc) to begrudge and demean people.

[Misawa]

You're older than me, of course you have the skill. I'll start giving you the respect you want when you step down from your high horse and give other people and companies the respect that they deserve.

Give me 4 years and I may well have the necessary skills to work along side high profile actors with multi-million pound companies. I congratulate you for AGAIN using your position (which, to be honest, I've seen nothing of - a film, a trailer, your name etc) to begrudge and demean people.

I don't begrudge anyone anything. But when you come here taking shots at me, you're not going to see me back down. I'm a realist, I will use fact to break down those who take shots. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I just find it pathetic. So grow up.

[Mrs.McCall]

I actually wrote an article about this for a magazine a while back. I think that piracy can be good and bad. I always support new bands and always buy tracks when it is a new band but when it comes to a band that have a huge profile (and millions of pounds) I feel no guilt about torrenting. Torrenting has also lead to people being famous and such examples include Artic Monkeys. It has a flip side because if people can easily access your music and for free, that means that you're going to be more well known but then, of course, you don't get the money.

The way I see it, torrenting comes from anger at high prices (in some cases) and accessibility. I torrent tons and tons of TV Shows and very rarely movies. The TV shows I torrent aren't ever UK ones because here in the UK I can easily catch up using free services provided by the TV companies. However, when it comes to US TV I do torrent because I cannot access the shows at all without downloading proxy software that messes things up. Here in the UK we can't use free services such as Hulu and UK stations always take forever to introduce US shows (with exception to Sky One and LOST). Look at ITV2 with Gossip Girl, they are a year behind. Living TV with grey's anatomy are 6 months behind and don't even get me started on Channel 4 with Ugly Betty. If US companies made their content more accessible (i'd even pay a subscription fee) then I wouldn't have to use illegal downloads to watch the shows I love.

I always try to buy content where I can though.