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Around 80-90% of the forum users are using pirated softwares.
This can never be stopped, whatever the govt. or bill gates do.
And coming to pirated movies, most of the members here watch them too, but since there has never been any thread in which a user asks about pirated movie, so this topic "watching pirated movies is ok, using pirated software is not."
Using both of them is ok
but you see, when a user asks about pirated software, the mods either delete the thread and/or change the question and give the author a warning. The threads are posted because of the complex nature of the cracks. Some newbees who do not read the forum rules (Duh! nobody does) or do not learn from the other posts tend to ask the illegal question. So, its not OK.
But watching movies is so simple. Download/rent a copy, throw it in the tray and its done. Since there never has been a discussion about a pirated movee ("Tell me guys, how can I watch the movie I just downloaded from the internet") so watching it is OK.
This is my opinion.
When I read this thread, I feel I just wrote the worst article of my life