re: Why is it ok to steal media?

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So the logical alternative is illegally downloading a movie? When it takes two days to get a movie from Netflix in the mail or 5 minutes to Redbox?

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For me? No, I use NetFlix and Red Box, but the younger generation has grown up in a much different world. For many of them illegally downloading a music file is to them what recording a song off the radio on my boom box was to me as a kid. It seems like an easy and natural alternative since they've been doing it their whole lives. Honestly it'd be more effort for me to set up torrents to stream to my PS3 than to go to the Red Box. But for someone that's been using torrents since junior high, going to Red Box is seen as the unnecessary inconvenience.