How much to you owe?

[Toronto]

What's your illegal hoard worth? What's the street value of all your pirated MP3s and movies? How much would the RI/MPAA demand - minimum - if they sued you? Find out!

http://www.qntm.org/owe

[nthfinity]

my hoard is worth... um... nothing :P

[MIHALS]

4 162.5 U.S. dollars = 2 363.57 British pounds :mrgreen:

not much...

[SFDMALEX]

8 grand. Not as bad as some if you I bet.

[ARMAN]

Piracy isn't theft. It's piracy.


hehe nice how the owner of the site trys to justify it all :lol: :roll:

You make bautiful chairs and tables, I come into your store and take 5 chairs and walk away and justify that its from wood and wood is free in the forest. Is it right? I dont think so.
I am not saying that I dont have no mp3s or never seen a pirat movie 8)

[gigdy]

It doesnt have software. I have back ups of my software worth 4k atleast.

9.2k usd
5.3k British pounds

[nthfinity]

Piracy isn't theft. It's piracy.


You make bautiful chairs and tables, I come into your store and take 5 chairs and walk away and justify that its from wood and wood is free in the forest. Is it right? I dont think so.
i dont know how it is over there... but you can only cut down a tree in the forest if it is your forest, and hippies dont find out an endagered kurblunka lives in your tree.

it is illegal to cut down trees in in publicly owned land, and un-aproved private land... so even wood isnt free :wink:

[ARMAN]

They are free in russia and czech... until someone cutch you :mrgreen: its a part of my point actually :wink: nothing is free and there is a price to pay, always.

[graywolf624]

Interesting... but I question the accuracy of assuming the cost adds up to the total cost of the product as opportunity cost is missing/ as is the price of the pamphlet and case.. lol

[RC45]

Number of complete TV seasons =
Number of isolated TV episodes =


These 2 are bullshit.

It has long ago been settled that home recordings of TV shows is fair use.

Case closed.

Unless people think the only way you can get a recording of friends is from a Box set :roll:

[Toronto]

^^^ only if you live in that country and pay for the channel
ie a nbc progam, can't be download and veiwed by someone who doesn't pay for an nbc station

[gigdy]

Number of complete TV seasons =
Number of isolated TV episodes =


These 2 are bullshit.

It has long ago been settled that home recordings of TV shows is fair use.

Case closed.

Unless people think the only way you can get a recording of friends is from a Box set :roll:

Isnt it only recordings for your own personal use? And you can download dvd rips of of lots of tv shows.

[RC45]

^^^ only if you live in that country and pay for the channel
ie a nbc progam, can't be download and veiwed by someone who doesn't pay for an nbc station

NBC?

Friends is on rerun on like 100 channels at the moment.

[RC45]

Number of complete TV seasons =
Number of isolated TV episodes =


These 2 are bullshit.

It has long ago been settled that home recordings of TV shows is fair use.

Case closed.

Unless people think the only way you can get a recording of friends is from a Box set :roll:

Isnt it only recordings for your own personal use? And you can download dvd rips of of lots of tv shows.

And how is someone going toprove the Seinfeld episode you are watching is not a rerun from TBS or Cannel 55 or Nick at Night ..?? ;)

[antonioledesma]

almost 5k :|
and it was not considering the thousands of vhs, beta, vcd and dvd movies around my house... neither music cd's nor audiotapes :?

[DeMoN]

I got 10k, Thats an exageration of what I currently have, but if I were to count EVERYTHING I have ever dloaded and pirated... oh boy I'd get a figure something like...

313CTRIC CHAIR lol.

[ldin]

i am honestly really really scared to post the amount of $

[Zot09]

$136,585.5 :lol: But not all of my music is pirated, so this figure is off.

[antonioledesma]

i am honestly really really scared to post the amount of $

lol, don't worry. Most lawyers and ppl of the music and movie industry couldn't read a number written with letters.
I owe five thousand dollars :P

[graywolf624]

and pay for the channel
ie a nbc
Pay? For a network Channel? I dunno about the great white north but here they are 100 percent supported by advertising.. Not that they'd be worth paying for even if they did cost cash.

[Toronto]

well to get in canada, you have have to pay your cable bill for it
do you get CBC and CTV for free? :wink:

[AlienDB7]

You make bautiful chairs and tables, I come into your store and take 5 chairs and walk away and justify that its from wood and wood is free in the forest. Is it right? I dont think so.
No, more like you walk into a store and take pictures (rip) of the 5 chairs. You head home (download) and build (write) the 5 chairs yourself with glue (net connection) and wood (HD space) you purchased from another store (ISP).

When you download, you're "copying" the file instead of "moving" it. So there's a difference. What I'm trying to say is, you're "stealing" the design instead of "stealing" the actual file.

IMO, it's more like buying a "knock off" chair than taking the actual chair. Someone stole the design and made a knock off and let you buy it at a low price.

[Max Power]

well to get in canada, you have have to pay your cable bill for it
do you get CBC and CTV for free? :wink:

we get nbc affialiate for free (abc etc)

they prolly do to

[Toronto]

really? you don't pay a rogers bill?
i am sure you can only get global, cbc, and ctv via antenna

[SFDMALEX]

/\/\/\ City TV is open air aswel.

[Max Power]

really? you don't pay a rogers bill?
i am sure you can only get global, cbc, and ctv via antenna

i have a back up to rogers, since it frequently crashes, and 02 is NBC, 04 is ABC, 29 Fox, 23 WB, and there are some others, but basically all the Buffalo and Rochester affiliates...the receptions is poor but they work

and then Omni 1 and 2 are 4, and 64, 15 toronto 1, 25 rds

[bmwmpower]

but that site missed programs, if u use for example pirate Autocad,one cd cost 3000 Euro

[AlienDB7]

In Spain there is a small fee in every single cd-r you buy... something about 0,25€. It's set to compensate the authors and artists for their lost :? paying this, then... means that I'm able to copy whatever I want, since I've already 'payed' to the artists, haven't I?? :hmm:
We have exactly the same thing here in Canada for cdr, cassette (who uses them nowadays?) and md. So I guess both of us can download for personal use legally?

[graywolf624]

You don't have to pay for most channels if you have a big dish(guess whos father still has one). So in reality I could argue I get 1000 channels free. They do now scramble the hbos and stuff. Didn't do that when I was a kid though.
So does that mean any tv show I can copy? *cutting the logic up a bit*

[Mattk]

I only have US$24.86 worth of illegal stuff.

[cooperluke]

The site is "down"... :(

[Toronto]

link still works for me :roll:

[geekdiggy]

What's your illegal hoard worth? What's the street value of all your pirated MP3s and movies? How much would the RI/MPAA demand - minimum - if they sued you? Find out!

http://www.qntm.org/owe

i wish the link worked because i'd love to see how much my illegal (aka "frowned upon") habit is.

there should be a program that determines how many producers would be pissed off at me for all the porn i've illegally aquired.

[Skaala]

1 666 euros =/

[Garretts_turbo]

heh, debt free at the moment...
slow internet keeps me from it, although when i get fast internet that'll change hahaha :twisted:

[Mattk]

So many of you guys are major league criminals.

[geekdiggy]

So many of you guys are major league criminals.

you're damned right 8)

[findleybeast]

counting stuff I actually recorded off tv... I got around $36k.... wow I'm quite the theif :?

and to think i've nearly stopped doing all that for a couple years :twisted:

...oh dang, I forgot pr0n. hmm that may move it a digit or two... :mrgreen:

[SFDMALEX]

Shit I forgot pron.

Okay so about 10 grand in pron :lol: