While you may not be stealing from your friend, you are both stealing from Tricia and Kim and Rocco and all the other performers in the adult industry. While they might not miss the few pennies involved with your particular non-purchase, what if we all did it? They would quickly go out of business. There would be no new material for you to steal.

This was the problem with Napster (& is an on-going problem with other similar sites). Just because you buy a DVD or a music CD or whatever doesn't mean that you own distributions rights. You have purchased a copy of the material for your own use - not for making copies to give to your friends.

~ GaySatyr

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I do buy a lot of music, video, etc. from the mainstream industry, but I have also been known to borrow a friends CD collection and make some copies. I do not go on line for it, but the end result is the same.

I have mixed feelings on the issue. On one hand the artist needs income from selling their material, on the other hand the ability to copy music has been around forever and the industry keeps making plenty of $$$.

It seems as long as some real effort is required to copy the material there will be a small percentage of people who "cheat" the system. I think the easier making copies becomes the larger the "problem" will get. In my mind the only thing keeping the general population from making copies is the time it takes.

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Now about the movies...they are all complete movies(or should be anyway). Dvdrip is naturally the one with the best quality(svcd or divx dvdrips are generally pretty close to dvd-quality), vcd's on the other hand are mostly vhs-rips, so they're not the best quality but still decent.

Edited by - Beeone on Apr 3 2002

Edited by - Beeone on Apr 3 2002

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There are countries which choose not to enforce the copyrights in other countries, mainland China, Indonesia and a few others being among the worst offenders, but, to the best of my knowledge, no countries' laws allow copies to be made to be given away or sold to friends. Copies are allowed for personal use. For example, if you buy an album or CD, you are allowed to make a copy on cassette for use in your car, but you are not allowed to make a copy to give to your friends, even if no money changes hands. By law, if you give it away, you must give the original and all copies you have made to the recipient. You cannot even keep a copy for yourself.

~ GaySatyr

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