I wouldn’t be a pirate because it still is illegal. I know a lot of people who pirate and get away with it. I don’t pirate because I find it morally wrong. I’m the kind of person who buys all their songs from Itunes. I’ve never illegally downloaded anything. Although nothing is technically stolen in pirating (it’s just copied), I don’t think it’s fair to the person/people pirated from. Even though the group who presented the issue of pirating made the point that only a tiny fraction of the sales from a song goes to the actual artist, I don’t want to make that fraction smaller. Would anyone want to perform a job or service for free? Even if my pirating didn’t lead to personal repercussions, the issue of pirating has inspired bills like SOPA, ACTA, and PIPA which have honorable intentions, but can infringe on freedom. They can also be detrimental to relatively innocent websites like Wikipedia or Youtube being shutdown simply for not catching pirates in a timely manner. For me, pirating is wrong and that has nothing to do with whether or not it carries consequences.
