The gimmie, gimmie set will winge about this the loudest.
Go down the video shop and rent the bloody movie. How much is that going cost, $5 tops.
How many movies do we have time to watch.
It is naive to believe governments can't control the internet.
Breaking into your house might not be exactly the same but either way you loose all you have worked for because someone steals something of yours
Either way at the end of the day the business still have their equipment and that equipment is still able to generate more income for the business.
So...
Unlawful use, not stealing.
Oh and we spend a fair amount on iTunes movie downloads around here (which is a decent if not perfect legal alternative to the above).
Think of iTunes as being like "renting the works equipment and returning it later" (I sleep better at night too).
iTunes is perfectly legal, and gives you the same rights as if you'd bought the movie, you just don't get the bit of plastic media.
iTunes is perfectly legal, and gives you the same rights as if you'd bought the movie, you just don't get the bit of plastic media.
And if your 'foreigner' job is work your boss would normally have picked up anyway, they may not see it in the same light as you!
You might want to check your analogy. I vaguely remember something where someone found out that he had paid for a plastic equivalent, but simply he right to use it on that particular device. He found it out when that one broke and he had to buy a replacement.
Microsoft has been doing a similar method with their OS for a couple of decades.
Actually I was talking about iTunes movie rentals, not iTunes movie purchases which is why I used the 'foreigner' analogy. But yes it's a perfectly legal alternative which is why we use it.
I'm my own boss, I've got 12 full time and 13 part time staff. I was talking about how I see things as a boss!
I don't see someone doing their own work in the workshop as 'stealing', it's using my stuff without my permission.
That's an issue that requires either warnings or action against the staff member (if they've done it during work hours without permission) but it ISN'T stealing.
Stealing = Removal of an object or product leaving the original owner without it.
NB I'm not saying that the penalties for pirating should be lesser (or greater for that matter), I'm just saying that the actual word 'stealing'
is being misused.
Piracy is huge.
I don't consider anything that is showed freely to be classed as stealing.
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