Odds are if you’ve ever copied your favourite series and movies from a friend’s hard drive you’re a pirate. Is it all coming to an end here in SA?
In a case that has dragged on for nine years, and been in court for three, an American man is set to feel the full wrath of the music industry after it was confirmed by court on Friday that he will have to pay $675 000 in damages for downloading and sharing just 30 songs from once-popular music-sharing sites, Napster and Kazaa.
Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on when it comes to pirating music, you have to respect the guys from Blink-182. For their latest single, they used several unauthorized fan clips that appeared on YouTube to make a music video for their latest single.
A Danish study has found that 70% of us find downloading files illegally from the net to be morally okay. No shit, hey? But here’s the twist: the same study, conducted a decade ago, had the same results.I somehow don’t think those gritty, hyper-cool ads telling us that downloading a movie is as bad as stealing a handbag helped.