Personally I love copyed stuff it means that I can actually get it in the first place!! try and find your favourite movie or old music in a Thai shop....impossible.
So if it wasn't for all the P2P sites and mass copiers then I would be without some of the great stuff I left back in the UK....and I ain't flying all the way home just to find out my scumbag family have destroyed it or ruined it.
As for these poor companies and artists....I don't believe for one second that they are skint...find me a CEO or even a lonely worker for one of these huge companies that lives in squaler????
I remember when CD's came out and replaced my beloved vinyl, well they were saying that they would be cheaper than vinyl.....what a crock of Shi't* that turned out to be. From what I can gather CD's should be cheaper than vinyl by far and with all the recycling out there they should almost be free... then and only then would I believe that these companies really need to charge a substantial amount to pay the artists involved in making the music/movies etc in the first place.
All you hear out of the movie and music press is this movie made this many millions on it's first night being shown (in one fricking cinema) or this CD has broken so many millions of copies!!! get a grip. I would never again pay 20 quid for a CD from HMV or whomever...DOWNLOAD....that's the way to go.
I remember some years ago I saw Arnold Scwarzenneger and Jackie Chan doing a commercial asking people to stop piracy....what a cheek these guys are absolutely minted out of their minds, and have the cheek to ask other people to stop making money (all be it out of them) but hey come on guys, a little compassion to people who aren't as fortunate as yourselves....you greedy Cnuts.
There ends my rant. enjoy and a big
to conglomerates everywhere. stop charging so much.