So we reach again on my opinion of 2-3x multiplier for a download penalty. I don't know about the standard in the USA, but here for example: I downloaded Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2, because i am huge fan of the series,I got the game 2 days after its release and I completed the campaign after another 2 days, the game as far as I know is not yet in our stores, and when it gets here the price will be 100lv. or about 50-60$. I don't know if this is a normal price for the USA but here such a price is too much for a game. Besides I saving my money for StarCraft 2 when it gets out (hopefully in my country as well) and a drivers license(moving away from the topic...
). Like GPH, I too have/had i don't know exactly 20-30 games, and everysingle one of them was downloaded illegally. The main reason was that 90% of them do not exist in the shops and aren't produced anymore like Trerro said the other part is just too expensive or my pocket.(BTW Trerro StarCraft 1 is still in the stores although it is a 10-11 year old game
). And do you guys think that downloading, books that won't appear in you country for another 5 years, because they can't translate it into your language, but you know the original language and you want the book? I have 4 of those, because if i order them, for example: I have friends in Canada and when they visited us i asked them to buy me 7-8 books and give them to me and i would pay them back- thats a 80$ expense for me. Fine i said i really want them. But they forgot a book at Canada and when they sent it to me on their expense the delivery costs was 30$! So do the math- 80$+240$ for each book makes 320$ instead of 80$, and if my friends would come again I would have bought the books but i just didn't want to spend 160$ instead of 40$. Finally what do you guys think of predownloading some TV series on your PC should it be considered as a theft or maybe some kind of violation if you want to see you show earlier?