Source: Diário da Manhã - GO - 20/07/2009

DM Online Forum asked: do you buy pirated products? Why?

Yes. Well, balls, I buy because our leaders are conniving. Since they make no effort to value our money. I buy and I will continue to buy, because I pay a lot of taxes and I don't see those values ​​coming back to me; therefore, let the pirates come.

Rafael Correa Fonseca

No. Other comments are correct when they say that the products are expensive for the reality of Brazil. But it is obvious that, by not buying original products, we destroy formal jobs and end up encouraging informal ones. That is, it's okay that an artist wins well for his show, but what about the record companies? There are other professionals in them, who, I think, would be honestly working there. I don't agree with high prices, but I also don't agree with rampant piracy. We go after low prices, but without theft.

Ibanez Almeida

Yes. In reality, the pirated product facilitates the dissemination of the artists' work, it is just one more marketing for them. Artists make money even with shows. Piracy is democracy, it is the inclusion of the least favored who are unable to buy.

Doriel Alves

No. And I think that politics is nothing more than a representation of the people, that is, we have the politicians we deserve, just look at the comments of most people in this forum. Everyone wants to be smarter, making us Brazilians an irresponsible people.

Glaucia Santos

Yes. This talk about what a pirate product fuels organized crime is not quite like that. If you want to end up with a pirated product, it's easy, just have a job for everyone. Those who sell pirated CDs would trade this job for a formal contract.

Edmundo Costa

Yes. I would even like to not buy. But in a country with a minimum wage of just over $ 200, who in the least favored class, who is the vast majority, can afford to pay the absurd prices demanded by record labels, distributors, “big brands” and others? In addition, the sale of these products on the streets and in popular shopping malls is the only way of survival for thousands of unemployed and excluded from society. Pirate product is a crime, but the original is a theft. In the end it’s the same.

Leonardo Couto