Survey: File Sharing is More Immoral Than Porn

So torrenting copyrighted porn films is just out of the question

I will tell you right now that porn can ruin lives in far worse ways than file sharing. There is a world of difference between them, and porn is worse of a thing for people to dabble in.

I guess if I simplified the activities maybe I agree with this...
copyright protected download ...on par with theft
watching porn ...on par with "entertainment"

Whether or not porn should be considered as simple entertainment is quite debatable, but that is a different moral question.

Whats up with all the porn articles lately?

Porn is immoral by virtue that it degrades anouther.
Piracy is illegal. It is theft which is immoral.

Must be that little thing called the Adult Entertainment Expo that happened last week, sparking the media's attention towards the subject of porn.

Those who read porn sites are probably wondering why there was such a sudden influx of news related to 3D and HD technologies -- little did they know that there was CES going at the same time!

the morality police is out for this one...

It is what the internet is for isn't it?

Tom's didn't use to have so many gutter articles. What's the deal?

Sex sells

Porn is not degrading to anyone. A better way to put it would be that while there may be participants being degraded, it is of their own volition. If you choose to be degraded, or better yet, both choose AND enjoy being degraded, then I see no harm.

In certain cases, I also see no harm in downloading copyrighted material. For instance, I see no harm in pirating PC games, given the number of bugs and incompatibility issues that seem to find their way into even the most simplistic of games. Couple that with the great difficulty in returning a game that does not work on your PC, whether it's your PC or the games fault, and treating game downloads as if they were "shareware" with the intent to buy the game later on if it functions correctly is morally OK in my opinion.

On a similar note, downloading music to see if it's worth owning or not is also not against my moral compass.

The twist, I believe, is that this survey was done in *New Zealand*. That might pass for informative if you live in New Zealand, or maybe Australia, but certainly not the world at large.

Yes, better that everyone pretends a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry doesn't exist.

Hence forth why the industry still prospers. Contrary to popular belief, most people go legit.

*insert something bad here* is worse than porn.

I'm glad I viewed this article solely for lulz I got from the motivational poster.

Stop the bus.
So downloading and watching copyrighted porn is better then infringing on a more mainstream copyright? Porn Videos have copyright too. If you expect me to believe that all the porn mentioned was paid for, I have an island to sell you.

If porn is so evil why is it still around after all these centuries? Simple answer is we like it, we like it a lot. Like cannabis we like it but don't want anyone else to know we like it, so we lie when asked question on the topic.

Not too far in the distant past bibles had erotic art on the edges of the pages, Bibles with their own porn, Amen.

WTF! Seriously, WTF!

Marcus, do you realize how many porn related articles you post?

Not all of them, not by far. Some of them are quite intimate and respecting of the persons involved

i saw that movie, teagan should have gotten more scenes, love the poster btw, i watch pron, and torrent like a mofo, keez, pornhub, scrapetorrent btjunkie, demonoid, tube 8, i hit them all, in a moral sense, i would have 2 agree that pron is the greater evil, how many of us pirated soldier boys first single? an effn lot of us, he is still a millionaire, ive never heard of someone missing out on life because theyre at home downoading copywrited materials, thats just my 2 cents.

*donating to charity* is worse than porn.


doesn't quite work

better than the usual "apple rulz!" articles

Hah, I grew up in NZ, this is exaclty what I would expect. Porn is no big deal there, when I was 12 there was porn on the bathroom wall in the shopping mall.

You, sir, are completely and utterly correct.

Incidentally pirates was a pretty good movie

Hmm, my tech sites include porn, but my porn sites don't include tech news.
I'm depressed.
Can't Spankwire and Tomshardware live in harmony? If so, then I could die right now a happy man. =D

Pirates was an aweful movie. Sure it had the worlds highest budget for an adult film, but damn, it sucked! I'll stick to my amateur and voyeur videos thank you.

Watching pornographic videos is a perfectly healthy thing to do. It helps us rid of the large amount of stress in our lives.
Torrenting is also good, because otherwise to afford to pay for the content, we'd all be forced to participate in pornographic videos (have you seen the price of photoshop?).

Also, the day we prove DVDA is physically possible, I'll crap a brick. (Short of using two men who dual-weild.)

Tonight while at the bar throwin a few cherry vodka's on the rocks back I thought of something that seems to me has been overlooked time and time again. If piracy is the issue (which it is) then why does microsoft or ANY OS developer allow copy and pasting in their systems? This is kinda of like the root of all evil. This should have been circumvented years ago. DRM may piss a few people off but the only OBVIOUS reason is because people want to.. guess what.. COPY. For 15 bucks a month, Zune lets you download ENDLESS upon ENDLESS tracks right to your computer. You just cant burn it to a disk, etc.. if you want to burn it to a disk... BUY IT. Then, it's yours. Or, get a Zune and store it all on that. Then you can BRING IT WITH YOU! I want to know one good reason copy and paste should be accessible to EVERY Joe Schmoe. This is the Operating Systems fault to allow this to go on. It was one thing not being connected to the internet. But it is a totally different world out there. Also, don't respond to this with IDIOTIC comebacks about copying and pasting in editing software. That is COMPLETELY different. If you think it ISN'T different, I want proof to this conclusion. Not just some super slander anyone can spew from their fire breathing chambers of ass breath.

Porn not degrading? Are you serious? Do any of you even have mothers? Sisters? How about this...put your mom and sister in a porn than tell me it's not degrading.

Porn is nothing new, they found pornograghic material (of the era) at Pompei. Get right down to it and there isn't much differance between a 2 minutes blow-job video on xtube and watching re-runs of Baywatch. The imposition of morals association with shame and guilt is just a byproduct of centuries of Catholic dogma. If the act of sex hadn't been pushed underground by a bunch of old priests who's only outlet is buggery of small boys then porn wouldn't be such an inflammatory subject to begin with. Celebrate the act of sex, it's not dirty, (unless you do it right of course).

File sharing is theft, so reconcile your guilt another way, personally I dont mind because it is for personal use so i'm not funding terrorists or drug dealers or any of the other fucking stupid scare stories that the authorities like to push out. I will say however that most of my downloads are TV episodes that I already get on my TV package and for movies I go to the cinema and buy more DVD's than I ever did before.

But as far as using the word "morality" in the arguements, don't force your morals on us. Morals are very subjective and individually personalised. Who gets to decide what is "moral" or not when the "rules" are as arbitrary as Victorian etiqette.

Fair play though for trying to get under the skin of people who you cannot locate because their internet porn or fileshare downloading habits are impossible to trace. Using the morals card is like religeous sermons of old invoking hellfire and brimstone. We don't feel guilty, we aren't darkages peasents anymore and you better get used to it.

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LOLZ!
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Everyone has got one.