Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Maggy it works both ways.

You asking a queston with an obvious answer.

However is it ok to massage figures to get dodgy laws passed, eg. claiming every download is a lost sale, meaning someone on the dole who has downloaded £1000 woth of content in a week would have obviously otherwise brought that £1000 of content out of their dole?

Its not ok to download something that you have no legal right to. However its also not ok to blatantly lie to get laws passed and even in some cases put own content on torrents for the purpose of them claiming for damages of the people downloading it. Having a business plan to basically profit of copyright infringement.

I also think its wrong to enforce copyright on something that has no commercial value anymore or at the very least isnt been actively sold.

So its wrong both sides of the fence.