I've seen a few people in this thread refering to services that make good alternatives to piracy(spotify, netflix etc.), I just wanted to point out the very americanised view there is on this debate, and I can understand since most people there live and work in the US where these services are avaible. Now, to counter-point…
I'm aware of you can bypas their country restriction, and I've considered doing it, but for me it would be mean I would have to make a new paypal account and pretend I had a norwegian adress, and I thought it would be very ironic that I have to do something illegal to gain acces to a service as an alternative getting all…
The one draw back to streaming content, like netflix and "in-demand" is that they cycle through what is available, their library might be huge but its not all available when I want to watch it. It's kind of a luck of the draw sort of thing, if they happen to have your old classic that you want to watch great, if they don't…
Yep Zpanzer, I totally agree. Once you get used to such services it is pretty hard to go back and I know that being unable to access them is quite a bummer - especially since having to purchase physical copies of everything is just plain expensive. For instance I can watch a whole series on netflix over the span of a few…
Just a few thoughts on the matter. When I was a kid, I would download the shit out of everything, mainly because A. I had no money, B. it was relatively easy and C. I was all like "fuck the man rah rah" etc. These days I rarely pirate anything, aside from the random album here and there. This is generally because of two…
Honestly I think these times are waaaay over by now - at least in some parts of the world with good network access and the appropriate license systems. I dont think the perfect balance has been found just yet, but its getting very close already! Instead of relying on jargon or IP theory semantics, I'll simply give you my…