maybe this will be unpopular, but articles that have a potential for piracy anywhere in them usually make a big point of saying how piracy is not the main function of what is being discussed, or the like. I doubt a major news site could get a way of saying 'wohoo free games on 360 now!' but still, isn't it a fact that many many people who read engadget will engage (hah) in a bit of torrenting now and then? shouldn't that be admitted? instead there's always some kind of pseudo self righteous person in the comments who writes in all caps I FOR ONE HAVE NEVER EVEN DOWNLOADED A PHOTO ILLEGALLY
@safe travels Well besides in most country's it is illegal to make copy's anyway which Engadget doesn't seem to realise thats the case. All Engadget doe's with these articals is spreading news to all yhese pirates.
@jon you're saying i'm being pseudo self righteous? i'm just pointing out something about how these stories always seem to be handled, nothing about how moral or not i may be.
@BrownSound so nobody thinks that tech sites should at least acknowledge that pirating is extremely common and that a good proportion of their own readership (i suspect most to be honest) probably do so on a regular basis? Every time there's an article of this kind of thing pirates are made out to be distant unsavoury threats to society which have no connection to the honorable readership of the site. I think that's a bit deluded and it makes me sigh a little bit each time i read it.
also, the notion that engadget shouldn't report this because it will give ideas to pirates is like saying cnn shouldn't report terrorist attacks because it could give terrorists any ideas. tech sites should report all tech news they can, obviously. anything else would be ridiculous.
@safe travels @safe travels I'm a music producer and recently found my last EP on a torrent site. Unlike most people I was thrilled to see that people liked my music enough pirate it and distribute it.
Piracy will inevitably happen as a lot of consumers can't afford the product or simply do not agree that it should be payed for. So for me I think using torrents is fine for people who know what they are doing, and repeated cencorship of such sites just leads to a loophole of workarounds
@Indefinite Implosion Uhh OK. Whatever logic you come up with that makes yourself feel OK is fine with me. I believe my murder spree is OK because its helping the environment because those people will just be consuming resources in the future.
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maybe this will be unpopular, but articles that have a potential for piracy anywhere in them usually make a big point of saying how piracy is not the main function of what is being discussed, or the like. I doubt a major news site could get a way of saying 'wohoo free games on 360 now!' but still, isn't it a fact that many many people who read engadget will engage (hah) in a bit of torrenting now and then? shouldn't that be admitted? instead there's always some kind of pseudo self righteous person in the comments who writes in all caps I FOR ONE HAVE NEVER EVEN DOWNLOADED A PHOTO ILLEGALLY
just wondering what people think.
@safe travels
Well besides in most country's it is illegal to make copy's anyway which Engadget doesn't seem to realise thats the case.
All Engadget doe's with these articals is spreading news to all yhese pirates.
@safe travels
I'd say that fills the "pseudo self righteous" quotient for this article.
@jon you're saying i'm being pseudo self righteous? i'm just pointing out something about how these stories always seem to be handled, nothing about how moral or not i may be.
@safe travels
Making copies for backup here in Canada is NOT illegal. It's silly that it is in the states.
@kawaiipikachu
Who's a pirate? Not me, and not Engadget. Just be happy that you know about this article because of Engadget.
@engadget fanboy
Yep this is sooo true! I'd like to back up my disc's but just don't know how?
@BrownSound
so nobody thinks that tech sites should at least acknowledge that pirating is extremely common and that a good proportion of their own readership (i suspect most to be honest) probably do so on a regular basis? Every time there's an article of this kind of thing pirates are made out to be distant unsavoury threats to society which have no connection to the honorable readership of the site. I think that's a bit deluded and it makes me sigh a little bit each time i read it.
also, the notion that engadget shouldn't report this because it will give ideas to pirates is like saying cnn shouldn't report terrorist attacks because it could give terrorists any ideas. tech sites should report all tech news they can, obviously. anything else would be ridiculous.
@safe travels @safe travels I'm a music producer and recently found my last EP on a torrent site. Unlike most people I was thrilled to see that people liked my music enough pirate it and distribute it.
Piracy will inevitably happen as a lot of consumers can't afford the product or simply do not agree that it should be payed for. So for me I think using torrents is fine for people who know what they are doing, and repeated cencorship of such sites just leads to a loophole of workarounds
@Indefinite Implosion Uhh OK. Whatever logic you come up with that makes yourself feel OK is fine with me. I believe my murder spree is OK because its helping the environment because those people will just be consuming resources in the future.