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I've remarked for quite awhile how I stopped paying for most things a long time ago. I was running an emulation and roms distrubuting site for awhile off of angelfire/virtualave/geocities/.....free websites and I never got messages...but that was before n64 emulation was solid and the industry hadn't really been cracking down yet. When napster was in its glory I used the hell out of that...then switched to morpheous...limewire...bearshare...took a stab at all those guys. Never a letter. Remember downloading a CAM version of south park movie...was about half a gig ....so far all of this is over 56k modems. At this time I was also discovering new download queing programs so i was downloading 311 bootlegs off of websites all night, every night. No letters.....but I lived in a rural part of maine, I doubt my ISP gave a hoot. These days I don't download so much music, I NEVER got into torrenting (which is how most people get caught in my opinion) and I stream all the movies that I want to watch from websites like nabolister. The only illegal downloads I do these days are of DS back-ups.
Only time I know of someone getting caught is a friend I had on Long Island (near NYC). He torrented a movie which had not even been released in theaters and got a letter from his ISP. He may have been sharing the movie as well....I was one of those people who never had their files shared.
Honestly I still buy things that I like. I own movies, Cds and games. I just own alot less of the shitty ones because now I have access to them before I can buy them.
My parents have kinda known about my piracy....considering I sit them down to see movies which they know are still in the theaters. As long as its something they wanted to see they end up not caring =P Or if I download an album for from. Or if I'm amusing my neice and nephew with the latest NDS games...then they don't mind.
Only time I know of someone getting caught is a friend I had on Long Island (near NYC). He torrented a movie which had not even been released in theaters and got a letter from his ISP. He may have been sharing the movie as well....I was one of those people who never had their files shared.
Honestly I still buy things that I like. I own movies, Cds and games. I just own alot less of the shitty ones because now I have access to them before I can buy them.
My parents have kinda known about my piracy....considering I sit them down to see movies which they know are still in the theaters. As long as its something they wanted to see they end up not caring =P Or if I download an album for from. Or if I'm amusing my neice and nephew with the latest NDS games...then they don't mind.