The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 3: Piracy warning

You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet and go to the toilet in it... would you?

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[Kenazzle]

Instead of "you wouldn't steal a car!" the actual ad should say "you wouldn't make an exact duplicate of someone's car which you drive away in leaving the original car completely unchanged!"

[OpticalFascism]

That's a populist argument. Only a few people who first downloaded files that they like will buy them afterwards. The majority doesn't feel guilty and is happy with the freebie.

[anonamus coward]

Citation needed

[hainsay]

It's about the intellectual property of the owners, not the actual physical or digital copies. I can't say I like their control of information though.

[Ekolius]

I never had any money to begin with to buy your game, so you're not losing profit from me. Pirating saves me from games like D3(even though i still bought it) that 60$ could have gone to my electric bill.

[MadMaxGamer]

The industry will eventually adapt to accomodate filesharing, but not before it will fight tooth and nail to make billions in profits instead of millions. This is only a matter of greed, DONT BELIEVE FOR A SECOND THAT COPYING WILL KILL MUSIC OR FILM. The inly thing to die in the next years is TV, those guys are whores.

[doomtrigger]

Its not stealing there copies of the original

[TheDarklord0211]

Yeah but if the game is good a lot of people will buy it afterwords, I do and I'm an asshole. Although I've only done it a couple times, mainly because I have only found a couple games I really enjoyed.

[Hypernl]

You Wouldn't Download A Gun, (or would you?)

[aradials]

I don't this warning knows me well enough!

[Patrik Lundgren]

That is not the same thing. Building an exact copy of a car takes both effort and material. If you want that analogy to fit you would have to make a movie or game exactly like the original..from scratch using the orginal as a template.

[nbsmartt]

You need statistics to back up either claim.