Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic How much have you avoided paying by downloading illegally. Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post Anonymous Posted at 10:37 am on June 14, 2009 Based on everything you've downloaded, how much would you think have you avoided paying by downloading things free.   Perhaps you've only downloaded a few songs from limewire, or have downloaded thousands of pounds/dollars worth of profesional software as well as movies and games.   I've heard a lot of people saying that people who download illegally are ruining the economy as well as the industries which make the stuff. So i am curious to just how much worth of content peolpe are "stealing" by downloading illegally. I'd say i've gone about £10'000 or more myself. I've been downloading a lot in the past few years. The only thing i've bought, in the media industry is a few cheap DVDs and some video games. probably only about £500 worth if that.

Replies rancid freakin rawk Posted at 8:03 am on July 8, 2009 at €10 an album, maybe €2500-€3000 anonomouse Posted at 12:16 am on June 30, 2009 Um... I use dollars... lol Anyway, since we are talking about stuff we are technically not supposed to talk about (illegally downloading stuff), we can only beat around the bush to say what we mean. That said, bittorrent is a really helpful way to get stuff done. I find that it is pretty slow, though. (Remember, though, that bittorrent is not all illegal stuff. You can download legal stuff like... linux) Stormblazer Posted at 3:32 pm on June 23, 2009 Quote: from Anonymous at 11:37 am on June 14, 2009 Based on everything you've downloaded, how much would you think have you avoided paying by downloading things free. Perhaps you've only downloaded a few songs from limewire, or have downloaded thousands of pounds/dollars worth of profesional software as well as movies and games. I've heard a lot of people saying that people who download illegally are ruining the economy as well as the industries which make the stuff. So i am curious to just how much worth of content peolpe are "stealing" by downloading illegally. I'd say i've gone about £10'000 or more myself. I've been downloading a lot in the past few years. The only thing i've bought, in the media industry is a few cheap DVDs and some video games. probably only about £500 worth if that. The thing is, a lot of the time those numbers really don't represent lost revenue as the people wouldn't have bought it anyways. For example, I really don't like buying MP3s (there are way better audio formats, and if I'm paying I want it in FLAC or something damnit), and I refuse to support DRM and useless middlemen. So the only time I buy music is CDs if I can get them directly from the artist. Sector Corrupt Posted at 7:45 pm on June 14, 2009 Considering I have over 400 Gigs in movies alone on my desktop... a lot. I also occasionally pirated software, though now I just use Free Software. espresso8097 Posted at 12:45 pm on June 14, 2009 I am running out of space on 870gb of total HDD space, most of the stuff on it cost me nothing.  That doesn't include games that were downloaded, played, and deleted.  Going to buy a terabyte or two to transfer things over to.  Besides amounts, I never bothered totaling it. allsmiles Posted at 11:37 am on June 14, 2009 Quote: from Anonymous at 7:03 pm on June 14, 2009 Quote: from drifting at 6:58 pm on June 14, 2009 Quote: from Check Unavailability at 1:39 pm on June 14, 2009 Are you kidding me? I have a 14GB collection, approximately 2GB of that I actually payed for and/or old CD's. Don't even get me started...    Thats nothing...    I have 35gb, and thats just music. Add in TV, movies, software, etc and I have 150gb, and thats just what I still have saved. I couldn't really say myself. I've got 2x 500GB hard drives, one is full to the top of movies, and video games as well as some programs. But i've deleted about twice as much as i've currently got on my hard drive, i'd say i've easily downloaded a terrorbyte of data. A terrabyte? Pff, I've got 1.8TB just of anime :P Over £10,00. But I would not have bought most of it anyway - I do go out and buy stuff that a) I enjoyed, and b) are available in the UK. I do a couple of imports as well. I'm not damaging the economy imo. Anonymous Posted at 11:03 am on June 14, 2009 Quote: from drifting at 6:58 pm on June 14, 2009 Quote: from Check Unavailability at 1:39 pm on June 14, 2009 Are you kidding me? I have a 14GB collection, approximately 2GB of that I actually payed for and/or old CD's. Don't even get me started... Thats nothing... I have 35gb, and thats just music. Add in TV, movies, software, etc and I have 150gb, and thats just what I still have saved. I couldn't really say myself. I've got 2x 500GB hard drives, one is full to the top of movies, and video games as well as some programs. But i've deleted about twice as much as i've currently got on my hard drive, i'd say i've easily downloaded a terrorbyte of data. drifting Posted at 10:58 am on June 14, 2009 Quote: from Check Unavailability at 1:39 pm on June 14, 2009 Are you kidding me? I have a 14GB collection, approximately 2GB of that I actually payed for and/or old CD's. Don't even get me started... Thats nothing... I have 35gb, and thats just music. Add in TV, movies, software, etc and I have 150gb, and thats just what I still have saved. drifting Posted at 10:56 am on June 14, 2009 Quote: from Zyaar at 1:38 pm on June 14, 2009 about 1000 I think i dont know if its illegal though... Did you pay for it? Its illegal. Probably getting close to $50k. I cant afford most things. Though, my music pirating is justified (in my mind) since I use the money I save to go to concerts and buy merchandise, the things that artists actually get money from. Twinkle556 Posted at 10:48 am on June 14, 2009 i never download messes up the computer i always buy my music on itunes so it goes Posted at 10:44 am on June 14, 2009 Well over 100,000$. I used to keep track of it, but I stopped around there. Latin Muscle Posted at 10:40 am on June 14, 2009 A lot. Rhapsody Posted at 10:39 am on June 14, 2009 Honestly not much. Because if I were to pay for the stuff I have downloaded I would not have bought it in the first place. But if we must put a number to it I would say well over $2500 Miami0429 Posted at 10:39 am on June 14, 2009 i have no clue...alot Check Unavailability Posted at 10:39 am on June 14, 2009 Are you kidding me? I have a 14GB collection, approximately 2GB of that I actually payed for and/or old CD's. Don't even get me started... 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