Piracy is illegal but?

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When it comes to music, movies, and even games it is possible to somehow in some way get it through piracy. One of the biggest examples of this was through sites and applications such as Napster, Lime-wire, and bear-share. These sites were used for people could download music and even some movies without having to purchase them. Sure, these sites have been sued as well as shut down because of piracy laws, however as years go by other ways of piracy have taken hold. An example of this is just other day my roommates were watching a movie (which I in turned watched with them) I did not know what the movie was called until more than three-fourth of the movie was over. Turned out the movie we had just watched was "The Hitman's Bodyguard", which turns out is still in theaters! So yes, piracy is illegal, but is it really going to stop people from doing it?

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  1. Alex LSeptember 21, 2017 at 9:59 PM

    Even though piracy is illegal people are still going to be it anyways. It is very easy to download things such as music or movies illegally from sources from all over the internet. I remember when I used to use lime wire when it was a thing for music and movies. It was very easy to download the software and browse for torrents.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 22, 2017 at 6:11 PM

      Although there is a lot of legal to protect author's rights, but there are still a lot of piracy in the world, no t only in book and movies also in video games, we can find some piracy on the newest basketball game 2k18 too, as well as books and movies, in American there are less piracy than in China, In China's website you can find almost everything you want by downloading torrents.

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