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Originally Posted by spadge101
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.
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Oh don't get me wrong, it's still copyright infringement (it's not theft, but that's a debate I really don't want to get into) my point though is going on about how it funds crime is just wrong, as the way the majority of people get their stuff involves no money at all, and so people will just ignore the issue as it doesn't apply to the copyright infringement they do.
Plus, even though what they do is illegal you have to admit that the release scene is the greatest content delivery network around, 10mins after a tv show stops airing it's available for download, it takes the bbc hours to get stuff on iplayer!