I dont understand people who actually enjoy watching a pirate DVD (or, indeed, a downloaded file) recorded at the back of a cinema. I mean, for £3-5 for a DVD, you get a wonky picture, people walking across the screen, bits missing off the picture, and worst of all for me, no surround sound.
The worst bit is some people, watching on ordinary 25" 4:3 stereo TVs dont notice some of these defects and think they are watching the original thing, and they just got a great value deal.
From my limited understanding of the legalities of this, POSESSION of illegally copied material, on any type of media including hard drives, is also illegal. Therefore, many people out there dont even know they are breaking the law, which is very worrying. Programmes like bittorrent are not helping things.
And im not a hypocrite. i download music for 99p a track and do NOT buy pirate DVDs, games or CDs.