(08-03-2012, 03:01 PM)Traggey Wrote: (08-03-2012, 12:14 PM)HateSolstice Wrote: Except copyright laws really only apply when a profit is being made. If copyright issues really extended to custom-made, free content then sites like YouTube wouldn't exist. This is why agendas like SOPA have been shot down.
Typically, if say a mod of a game uses a song from so-and-so, as long as they are credited for their work then there is no issue. Again, usually only as long as no profit is being made.
Going by that logic piracy is totally alright.
It is in the sense that nothing illegal is taking place, nobody loses anything and nobody gains anything at somebody else's expense. You can debate the moral implications of "stealing" virtual objects (I don't want to partake in that debate) but what it all boils down to is somebody legally making copies of data and illegally distributing them and then somebody else legally transferring that data to some sort of storage device.