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Originally Posted by pylon
I have always posed this example to content Pirates.
If you could duplicate an exact replica of a Calgary Flames ticket, that guaranteed you access to the arena for games, would you use it to print tickets for personal use? If your answer is no, then you should be against piracy, because it is the exact same thing. If you rip a counterfeit album you have no tangible "thing". If you pirate admission to a game neither do you as well. Like c'mon.... have you seen the price for those new fangly hockey tickets, they are expensive as hell. I should steal them because I am OWED the right to admission, because I like the team. Same goes for airline tickets. Damn flights overseas are pricey. I should pirate those too. Hey Jetfuel, and 777 maintenance is free right?
The only reason people are piracy apologists, is so they can justify the fact they know they are stealing someone else's product or service.
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I agree with this post, except for the bolded part. Downloading content is theft, although not in the strictest or traditional sense. Arguing it isn't in some circumstances is semantics really, and has been covered in a few places in this thread, so I don't want to do into in here.
If I can watch a episode of a TV show, lets say The Walking Dead, because I subscribe AMC. I can watch it on any TV in my house, I can PVR it to watch at a later time, and I can even watch it on Shaw on Demand for free, online anywhere.
You could reasonably assume that I have paid to consume that content, with my subscription fees.
What if I wanted to watch that same episode on transit while I am travelling to work? I could use several format shifting options to do convert the content into a format that I can watch (PVR -> DVD -> Video File, Record video on my monitor, etc).
Should that be illegal? I can already watch this content in several places already and I paid for the ability to do that. It is no different than ripping a CD to your PC to put onto your phone/ipod/whatever.