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

[Pix]

both the distributers and the people that download it are equally in the wrong as both of its illegal.

[Black_Apalachi]

To be honest, you know when you go on torrent sites, I always wonder why people even bother uploading things onto them. I mean I may download stuff, but I'm never in a million years going to register on some illegal website and upload things to it. The only people I could imagine bothering to go out of their way to do so, would be people who have hidden viruses in the files, So it surprises me how it all keeps going so smoothly.

[DrLacero]

To be honest, you know when you go on torrent sites, I always wonder why people even bother uploading things onto them. I mean I may download stuff, but I'm never in a million years going to register on some illegal website and upload things to it. The only people I could imagine bothering to go out of their way to do so, would be people who have hidden viruses in the files, So it surprises me how it all keeps going so smoothly.

Contrary to your baseless accusations, I'm both an uploader, former-helper and VIP on TPB and none of my stuff has viruses.

[Sammeth.]

To be honest, you know when you go on torrent sites, I always wonder why people even bother uploading things onto them. I mean I may download stuff, but I'm never in a million years going to register on some illegal website and upload things to it. The only people I could imagine bothering to go out of their way to do so, would be people who have hidden viruses in the files, So it surprises me how it all keeps going so smoothly.

Why would you download stuff if you thought the only people who uploaded stuff were people who put viruses on files? Surely you would want to not download stuff if those were your views

[xxMATTGxx]

I don't like what they want to bring in regarding illegal downloading. Tons of information can be found on this website set up by the ISP "TalkTalk". (http://www.dontdisconnect.us/) The petition already has 31,449 signatures so far, so I'm not only one in the country hating the idea.

People download because its easy to do and its basically free, I know I download because of the stuff I do download I wouldn't be able to afford all together. Everyone will just switch to usenet or whatever its called sooner or later.

[[Jay]]

I read an article in the newspaper a few days ago about kids as young as 10 downloading movies from the internet and began thinking that while there is only a minority thats downloading stuff illegally at the moment in the future this could become a norm and evryone will be doing it.
I still think that somoene will find a way in stopping people downloading stuff in the future but until then I dont think it will be a huge problem.

[Special]

I suppose they should but i can't see how they can

But punishments shouldn't be harsh like jail, that's what murderers and rapists are for. A fine is quite acceptable for this minor crime

i say 'minor crime' because as someone said earlier, it is kind of advertising, if you're looking for a song or film, and come across something else, watch it and think it's good, you then tells your friends, so in that aspect it's a good thing

and also this whole 'random check' thing is unfair also, they could have downloaded 1 song and the person next door hundreds of albums. if they start to punish, they need to do it fairly.

I myself download very little, maybe a album every other month, but I do think fines & punishments should be enforced.

[Black_Apalachi]

Contrary to your baseless accusations, I'm both an uploader, former-helper and VIP on TPB and none of my stuff has viruses.

Why would you download stuff if you thought the only people who uploaded stuff were people who put viruses on files? Surely you would want to not download stuff if those were your views

Didn't make any accusations. I know but I still don't get why people upload things.

[untrustus]

Didn't make any accusations. I know but I still don't get why people upload things.

people upload things because they're not selfish and they realise that to keep the file sharing community going you have to do just that - share. like if you download a torrent, you should seed for a while.

..not that i really agree with pirating whatsoever

[Black_Apalachi]

people upload things because they're not selfish and they realise that to keep the file sharing community going you have to do just that - share. like if you download a torrent, you should seed for a while.

..not that i really agree with pirating whatsoever

I know but I'm surprised that people aren't selfish. People generally don't go out of their way to help strangers especially in a way like that where it's indirect.