Eight percent admit to downloading video illegally

Hi,

Before adding my first post I want to say that congratulations for this great forum.

Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain, France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally from the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win governments or piracy? As you know, torrent site piratebay is a political part in Sweden and already won a seat in European Parliament Elections.

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Does watching HULU, and having my brain liquefied count.

OnurCc said:

Hi,

Before adding my first post I want to say that congratulations for this great forum.

Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain, France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally from the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win governments or piracy? As you know, torrent site piratebay is a political part in Sweden and already won a seat in European Parliament Elections.

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Don't know. but I am puzzled as to how they work out the amount of money they have lost to piracy in China. The Movie business say they have lost hundreds of millions, but if the people that pirate videos, do so because they cannot afford to go to the movies and never would, than they havent lost anything.
LIke I've downloaded the odd movie, 99% of the time is because its and old classic or its got such bad reviews I would not see it at the pictures and I really couldn't care whether I saw it or not, therefore no loss.

As there are many sites allow people watching TV online such as YouTube and Baidu. Those videos are not for downloading. However, Real Player has a function to allow you to download video and save them in .flv format. I'm not sure if such a download considered piracy?