[Kinanizer]

I know a good amount of people who think torrenting is immoral. Personally, I do not think so. There are certain things that are wrong to torrent. Such as games, those are expensive to make and their developers deserve money for the effort. But as for music, I believe all art should be free for people to express themselves with. Please tell me what you think.

[h0rr0r]

I don't see it immoral at all, celebrities make enough money to wipe there ass with cash. We aren't hurting anything.

[DaemonSic]

They make already enough money. Torenting is fine IMO.

[Kinanizer]

They make already enough money. Torenting is fine IMO.

If everyone thought like that then they wouldn't make any, unless they're musicians, then they got concerts and what not.

[w00t]

Immoral, just because you think that they should do something for free doesn't give you the right to take it for free. Anywhere else, we call that stealing.

[Jolly]

Video Games are a art on themselves, to create a whole new world for a player to explore seems pretty artistic for me.
I also torrent them because:
1) I want to test them out.
2) I don't have enough money to spare.
3) Online shopping is an annoyance.

[Xeronations]

I personally think it's immoral. Imagine that you wrote an eBook, and you spent ages fine tuning this awesome method. The day it's released, it's leaked, and you can't get the link removed. Wouldn't you be mad? Now think of the same thing, except with a lot more work, whether it be music or games.

For the record, I still download torrents. It's uploading that I'm against.

[Kinanizer]

I personally think it's immoral. Imagine that you wrote an eBook, and you spent ages fine tuning this awesome method. The day it's released, it's leaked, and you can't get the link removed. Wouldn't you be mad? Now think of the same thing, except with a lot more work, whether it be music or games.

For the record, I still download torrents. It's uploading that I'm against.

You make a great point, people should pay for books. But musicians make crap loads of money if they're good. Due to concerts, autographs, fan wear, etc. I don't believe I should have to pay to listen to them recorded. Yet I still support artists, especially new ones. I can't afford concerts for the big dogs, but when a local band is playing, I love to put a few dollars in their jar.

[Adorapuff]

I think that musicians music should be free; they would make a shit ton of money by getting off their asses and doing concerts. Fuck royalties!

[Ammonsa]

I think that before I get into the morality of piracy, a thing that concerns me is when people attempt to justify one medium over another. It ultimately comes down to what you have an appreciation for, you'll find people who have an interest in games and the industry are more hesitant to pirate games whereas people who have a passion for reading don't like to torrent books. I find this hypocritical in the extreme, because I feel that you can have either piracy or not piracy, but you can't have a state in between where you feel some things are acceptable to pirate while others aren't.

I have no moral qualms with pirating things, but I do acknowledge that I am pirating something, I'm not trying to justify myself by saying that the people make a lot of money. I pirate what I want because I want it and because I lack the money or incentive to buy it. It's hypocritical to pretend it's more wrong to pirate games over music, or music over books. Piracy is piracy is piracy, the end result is that you're pirating something.