Dunno if this counts as "discussing" pirating stuff. I just want to see whether I'm the only person who has this opinion in my "peer group".
As a Christmas gift, or birthday gift or something special like that, is it a really crappy gift to give pirated items that the receiver is known to want or has been trying to get on his/her own, or is it just as good as buying something legal?
Example: Christmas gift, buying CD burned copies of an anime series set from an auction site, which the receiver has been trying to locate to download him/herself for some time, where neither party can afford to buy the sets themselves.
Example: anniversary gift, downloading an entire collector set of a particular artist for someone who would wasn't particularly trying to get the MP3 versions, but would have liked to get the set if he/she could afford it, burning the songs to CD, printing out a nice image on photo paper and sealing it to a flip-out disc case with the CD's in it and making customized labels for the CD's.
I am of the opinion that it's less than thoughtful and heartfelt, for a special type of gift, even if it's something the receiver really wanted. I don't consider the effort putting into making the pirated music set into something more than some MP3 files turning it into a special item, it's still just something that was set to download and then walked away from until done, and paying for known thieved items just to save the effort of downloading them is just as bad.
I'm not saying however that a "legal" item needs to be as expensive as the pirated item would be if it were legal. I'd consider an inexpensive but well thought-out gift to be more appropriate than a pirated copy of something that would have been expensive. I'm also not saying it'd be horribly and thoughtless to give something like this just as a random "here, I got you something on this non-special day that I know you've been trying to get", I'm just talking about special occasion gifts, those important times.
As a Christmas gift, or birthday gift or something special like that, is it a really crappy gift to give pirated items that the receiver is known to want or has been trying to get on his/her own, or is it just as good as buying something legal?
Example: Christmas gift, buying CD burned copies of an anime series set from an auction site, which the receiver has been trying to locate to download him/herself for some time, where neither party can afford to buy the sets themselves.
Example: anniversary gift, downloading an entire collector set of a particular artist for someone who would wasn't particularly trying to get the MP3 versions, but would have liked to get the set if he/she could afford it, burning the songs to CD, printing out a nice image on photo paper and sealing it to a flip-out disc case with the CD's in it and making customized labels for the CD's.
I am of the opinion that it's less than thoughtful and heartfelt, for a special type of gift, even if it's something the receiver really wanted. I don't consider the effort putting into making the pirated music set into something more than some MP3 files turning it into a special item, it's still just something that was set to download and then walked away from until done, and paying for known thieved items just to save the effort of downloading them is just as bad.
I'm not saying however that a "legal" item needs to be as expensive as the pirated item would be if it were legal. I'd consider an inexpensive but well thought-out gift to be more appropriate than a pirated copy of something that would have been expensive. I'm also not saying it'd be horribly and thoughtless to give something like this just as a random "here, I got you something on this non-special day that I know you've been trying to get", I'm just talking about special occasion gifts, those important times.