Fantastic Anti-piracy Statement

[Danny Boy]

Thats a really bad example Bridge. Though I understand what you meant. You could say that piracy is technically its not theft. But in reality you can "murder" someone's copy either. The copy factor is only easily done on the virtual world. The effects caused by pirating a game are worse than stealing it. because if you steal you'll be the only one carrying that illegal copy. If you pirate it however. The copy of the game shall inevitably multiply to millions causing the exact same damage for a company as if an army went to the game store and took every copy of the game again and again throwout years!

Slippery slope much? There are many ways to copy something without sharing it. Nobody is arguing that torrents are completely legal. Actually, downloading torrents of copyrighted material with a upload speed of anything above 0 kbps (which is not possible with many programs), is highly illegal. Even if you share just a megabyte of it, you can be charged with distributing copyrighted material, which is a crime.

Even though one does not use torrents. The downloaders are still directly partaking on the unauthorized one way exchange. By doing this people are supporting those who do in fact distribute copyrighted material.