To let your offspring have access to pirated material?

[Tak3n]

On Friday I had a text from one of my friends saying how their kids teacher had come to school with a pirated copy of Avengers in for the kids to watch on the last day of term.. (they were 14 years old)

Which got me thinking; do you now think Piracy is so "the norm" that by not letting your kids see the films early etc etc that you are almost excluding them from school ground talk..

I know I have to put my hands up and say I always get my 4 year old the latest films for kids, but obviously he does not understand where they come from, and I am not sure when he is old enough if I should stop and explain to him how things work properly.. i.e cinema/rental or if it is now the way of the world to watch pirated material.

Way of the world. My dad used to get us pirated computer games 20-25 years ago, and we used to hook up 2 videos in the living room to pirate videos from the video shop.

I don't think endorsing piracy is ever really okay.

I know I have to put my hands up and say I always get my 4 year old the latest films for kids, but obviously he does not understand where they come from

ummmm, but you know where they come from, and it is most likely not a very nice place either... :(

What isn't a nice place?

Yeah, it's just a bit of harmless fun isn't it?

I would say LOTS of people, especially computer savvy poeple download stuff - series, films etc. I don't know poeple who buy dodgy DVDs but downloading stuff seems really common.

Films still make alot of money at the box-office, and the industry doesnt seem that damaged by it... not that I'm condoning piracy of course

But it's stealing whatever way you look at it. No different to the teacher shop-lifting the DVD from Tesco.

Thats why people download their own films (obv not condoning illegal behaviour) Daisy - the DVD piracy side of things deos seem really exploitative.

Download sites are really poplular it seems.

I think the vast majority of pirate DVDs in this country are downloaded and burnt by normal people on home PCs. The thing about profits going to criminals was just something they came up with to try and make it sound bad. Same as those awful "Knock off Nigel" adverts from a few years back.

My dc's Dad has given them Nintendo DS games that are copied from somewhere. Not sure where or how it I know it's not entirely legal. I don't like it and I wouldn't do it myself (even if I knew how) but I have chosen to pick my battles so have let this one go.

It is stealing but somewhere along the way poeple felt entitled to free content online...

Children should be taught that pirated DVDs / using download sites are illegal and there can be some comeback.

Pirating is a way of funding the drugs trade, money laundering, child trafficking, terrorism.

I download TV that I couldn't watch normally ... Supernatural / Game Of Thrones etc. and then buy the box set if I like it. So that's a sale they wouldn't have made if I hadn't snaffled it in the first place!

It's theft... plain and simple.

Pirating is a way of funding the drugs trade, money laundering, child trafficking, terrorism.
Yeah, if you buy DVDs from people selling them on the street or something. It's far more likely that the teacher downloaded the film themselves.

Where do you think the down load came from?

So none of youse ever listened to a home recorded tape from a friend back in the day?

Doesn't the drug trade, child trafficking and money laundering fund itself?

Genuine question, I have no idea how that stuff works!

My DH works in the animation industry, it is being slowly eroded by piracy, budgets get smaller as profits are cut, the standard of living of my family and all the animators I know has gone down( and it never was a high paying industry), so YADBU to buy or download pirated material.

Eventually no-one will bother making quality animated films and your kids will have nothing new to watch.

www.launchingfilms.com/who-gains

But quality animated films always make loads of money from cinema tickets and dvd sales.

So none of youse ever listened to a home recorded tape from a friend back in the day?

Yep, and if my mate had sneaked a camcorder into the cinema and sneakily filmed something, I would watch that too, but the trade for selling pirate DVDs is still dodgy ground.