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Originally Posted by TheDon
Only if you're buying your stuff off someone who then uses the money for something like that.
The whole "piracy supports organised crime" argument is inherently flawed. Sure, when you're buying imitation retail dvds that have came from a 3rd world production line then you're supporting organised crime, but joe bloggs downloader who isn't paying anything and is just using torrents or newsgroups? Not a chance.
The entire online release system is not-for-profit. Every release group works for free recieving no payment. The distribution chain is not-for-profit as well, either running ads or collecting donations to cover costs. So how is the copyright theft that the vast majority of people do, going to support organised crime when it generates zero income for the people involved and when it does it's hardly enough for a crime syndicate to be run off?
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Softening your language to "online release system" as opposed to calling it what it is, i.e. copyright theft services is wrong. Not-for-profit should read "depriving people/bands/companies of revenue that is rightly theirs". It is still theft plain and simple. I agree, illegal filesharing isn't very likely to be part of or contribute to organised crime but it is still wrong.