Were that true there would not be these things called stores, as they would go out of business after being ransacked on the first day.

“So if these shows don’t exist then how do you go about stealing them?”

They don’t show them where I live, which, for all practical purposes, means they don’t exist here.

And my original point STILL stands: most people will not pay for things that they can get free.

So if these shows don’t exist then how do you go about stealing them? What is the size of a nonexistent file? Or are you just making more excuses to try and make yourself feel better about your theft?

And you still have not made any excuses yet that compensate for your original statement of “Why buy something when you can steal it?”

And yes, I have downloaded things illegally. But unlike you I do not try to justify it.

So for you to talk down on services such as Netflix because they aren’t theft, what the fuck is wrong with you?

You can’t steal something that doesn’t exist. – If those shows were actually available, some people might pay for them. But most wouldn’t. And I bet you and your lover InfraRed have download something at least once, so don’t be hypocrites.

You still have a choice. You aren’t forced into theft.

Also you initial comment said that you don’t know anyone who would pay for it. That sort of denotes that the people you know DO have a choice of a service but actively instead choose to steal, and doing so resign themselves to an annoying and substandard experience.

I understand what you’re saying, but you are looking at it from a North American perspective. – Where I live, we don’t get NetFlix, or half of the other stuff available to U.S. 360/PS3 owners. And tv here is utter, utter shit. So we have no choice BUT to download shows that we want to watch, otherwise we’d never see them.

BTW, I do pay for them, because I belong to a subscription site.

“But that’s what happens when you put forth money for a service.”
How dare some people actually pay for a good thing each month, I can’t fathom why some would actually do that -end sarcasm-.

But that’s what happens when you put forth money for a service.