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Illegal Download Poll
- Thread starter cedwards90
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The poll is anonymous so I hope we get some real answers here. This is also a good place for confessions.
never have never will. Illegal downloads are illegal, unethical and will probably (hopefully) give you a virus.
I used to when I first started I thought that 30 bucks for one trick is bogas. But after I got more into the art, I bought all the DVDs I downloaded illegally.
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i used to before, i deeply regret it and i have stopped. Im trying to save up money for the stuff i downloaded (unless it was crap)
Depends on what you would pirate. College books. I could agree with pirating those due to how over priced they are (even for used books.).
But for things like magic books or whatever then it's something different. Tho I personally find it better and easier to read some thing when I have the hard copy of it, rather than sitting there reading it off a computer screen. That's just my style tho.
LOL
I marked the wrong one, but since this is a confessions place, I once illegally downloaded some T11 1-on1's
I do plenty of things illegally and I've pirated a some music and movies but I am proud to say that I have never downloaded magic content illegally.
That being said, this thread actually incited me to go look around a little bit, and I will say that unless you really know what you're doing you will not find much magic available to pirate, and what you do find looks like it's lacking in the seed department, probably very slow goings.
And one last thing, steerpike brings up an interesting point with the economic value of pirating media. I do not think that money (or lack thereof) should be a good reason to download media. If you wanted something bad enough you would work hard for it and respect the creator by buying it. If you don't care about the creator you most likely pirate because it's convenient and free, not because you simply don't have, or could not get the money. We all love free!
That being said, this thread actually incited me to go look around a little bit, and I will say that unless you really know what you're doing you will not find much magic available to pirate, and what you do find looks like it's lacking in the seed department, probably very slow goings.
And one last thing, steerpike brings up an interesting point with the economic value of pirating media. I do not think that money (or lack thereof) should be a good reason to download media. If you wanted something bad enough you would work hard for it and respect the creator by buying it. If you don't care about the creator you most likely pirate because it's convenient and free, not because you simply don't have, or could not get the money. We all love free!
Quotes like this are quite nauseating in their self-righteousness. They betray a lack of understanding in how the real world works, a lack of comprehension further confirmed by this:
We can wax nobility and economic chivalry all we want, but that ignores moral relativism. It's a very close-minded perspective.
Now, I don't use torrents to get magic and mentalism resources anymore. However, I do have a source to which I can turn whenever I want to get numerous classic books for free. I have used this source, and I plan to continue using it in the future. In fact, I am going to recommend my students to use it as well.
Now I ask you the community: Is that the wrong thing to do?
