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For/against/neutral?
A serious thread to the industries it affects? If so, is it worth taking measures against services such as Megaupload in the name of curbing piracy?
An unavoidable part of the internet age, or simply a service problem?
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I'm dead set against it, and every company has the right to deter such activity, even at the inconvenience of customers. Most people-I'd like to think-wouldn't walk into a shop and steal a product for the purpose of "testing", or indeed any other reason. They would be deterred by the risk of being caught, and the guilt that such an action should produce in one of respectable morals. Piracy allows those that are too coward to thieve in the real world do so in the virtual.