The legal way!

[Nick]

Do you buy your music, TV shows and movies?

 

[Cordelia]

Heck no, I download all of it. =P

 

[Blizz]

I have to say no. Few years ago I bought everything but not anymore. Downloading is so easy and it's free. But when DP saga will come to Finland I'll buy it.

 

[Rogue planet]

I buy some music if I deem it worthy enough to deserve my money, mostly I just buy new albums so I can support upcoming artists. Buying an album by an old band that has since disbanded, or the members have died, I don't see the point unless it's a firm favourite that I really want in my collection. Similar reason as to why I don't bother buying films as well, because I only watch older films and don't really pay attention to recent happenings.

 

[mondays suck]

I own a total of three music CDs, and two of them are Christmas presents from ~12 years ago. Problem is that the better known artists already have more than enough money and the lesser known ones are extremely difficult to find outside the internet - and online banking scares the everything out of me. So, yes, i download music, but never TV shows or movies. I don't buy these either, I'm just not too interested in any.

 

[Kroso]

Personally I download everything unless the specific item encourages me to receive it legally,like a new album for my all time favorite or a band that I know but has been dead for ten year.Btw,only deserves all my attention,so yeah there you have my opinions.

 

[Oryx]

I usually download with music, because I don't want the jacked up prices song-by-song, but I don't listen to full albums. With movies, I just generally...don't watch them at all. When I do it's with my bf off of his paid Netflix or a paid DVD that someone else owns. I don't buy them myself but I don't download them either. TV shows I'm the same way, I don't buy them but I don't download them either.

 

[Mr. X]

Used to download just about everything, until I moved ahd had to get Dialup because DSL wasn't avaliable and satellite was to expensive.

I still download stuff but its mostly smaller files. Nothing over 500 mb.

Also, I really hate Steam. I'm considering paying a online friend to download ripped/steamfree versions of some Steam games. I own physical copies of them, but Steam hates dialup.

 

[Sydian]

I usually never buy whole albums. If I have a full album on my iTunes, then yeah, it was probably torrented ngl. Random singles and half of an album was probably bought with iTunes. Just fyi in case one of you guys ever like, gets on my iTunes. As if that'd happen. lol

 

[Nick]

Now, when you guys say download, I don't know if that's download legally or download illegally. lol. :[

 

[Oryx]

I would assume it means download illegally, lol.

 

[travis_]

I download music illegaly, but if I like it, I'll still buy it ..
Tv shows and movies i mostly watch online but I download them if i want to rewatch :)

 

[-Jared-]

I buy my music on iTunes, because I feel paranoid about illegally downloading songs. >__> Like, I know it's unlikely that anyone will catch me but WHAT IF. D:

Granted, I do watch streamed TV shows like Doctor Who, and I download anime for free, but idk if that counts. xD

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

I've been a streamer of television since about 2004. Most of my TV watching comes from the US, and since it either takes an age to get to the UK, or doesn't arrive at all, I don't feel any guilt in streaming this way.

I used to purchase all of my my music on iTunes until Spotify came out. Now I just listen to it online, and use my iPod when I'm out of the house for whatever reason. Sometimes I'll use Grooveshark, but only if I can't find something on Spotify.

With films, I have a real issue with streaming/downloading those. The only times I've done it are when I've been completely unable to find a copy of the DVD in the UK. And it's only ever been for relatively obscure films like Harlan County USA, Long Day's Journey into Night and Safe. If there's any other way to obtain them, I'll always go that way, as I'd feel extremely guilty otherwise.

 

[Mew~]

When it comes to television, like Mr Cat Dog, I tend to download shows that take a while to reach the UK, do I'll download it illegally since I'm apparently impatient.

As for Music, I'm somewhat on the same stance as Vendak, only I'll probably download music from Itunes if I want to support the artist, or if it's actually good. If I just want to give something new a go I'll probably either stream it or download it illegally. I actually downloaded a song illegally today due to the fact that it wasn't available on the UK itunes store. :3

As for movies, I really only go to watch a movie like once in the cinema (I've gone to watch a movie multiple times before, not on the same day though), and if it's good there would be a slight chance I buy. The only DVD's I've got that haven't been given away or from when I was small are the Harry Potter series. I was actually thinking of buying a blu-ray player just to buy the blu-ray Harry series set. xD;

 

[Shining Raichu]

I buy everything. It's not really so much for moral reasons (though it does allow me to feel like a good person :P) but more because of the fact that I have the money and I would much prefer to actually physically have a DVD in my house than just a file on a computer. Also, I buy most things in Blu-Ray now for the HD quality and I haven't seen anything anybody has downloaded that has come close to being the same quality.

As for music, I don't really listen to music that much but when I do I buy it from iTunes. I guess I just prefer that everything is legal and above-board, I feel like the products are more reliable that way.

 

[champagnepapi]

Like Sydian, most of my albums are downloaded, but I do by most songs. I'm not a huge fan of movies, but I don't download them, TV Shows or games, although I've played Pokemon ROMs quite a bit. I do own all of the games of the ROMs I've played, though.