As a responce to Pete Merlin, pretty much if everyone pirated it I'd be happy. It'd show that a lot of people like my work, and if that was the case I would've achieved my aim in the first place, to make great music for everyone. And Mushroom, if you read the post you quoted you would have seen that the film companies make a profit anyway since I have already seen the film?

Look, let me put this into perspective. I have all 3 Extended Editions of Lord of the Rings on DVD, and recently the Blu-Ray came out. I'm planning on pirating it sometime. Why? The studio have already made about £150 of profit off me, actually MORE since I baught 2 of the theatrical versions on DVD as well, so why should I let them profit another £40-odd on a product which I've heard has shabby video quality, which ruins the whole point of Blu-Ray, and is also the theatrical editions, which is worse than the Extended Editions?

Another thing to put into perspective. I recently downloaded all 3 seasons of a show called Drawn Together, which was a great show but was cancelled 3 years ago. I ain't particularly proud of this pirate, though. Why? Because they have not released the DVD in the UK, so even though I would have purchased the box-set if I had the chance (espicially with the release of a straight-to-DVD movie which means if the sales are high we could see another Family Guy revival) I had no option but to pirate it to actually own a copy of the episodes of the show.

I myself only pirate content if it is music (I have only ever baught about 4 albums don't really see the point of buying it I guess if I can listen to it for free about 500 times on YouTube why not download it too?) or if it is a video game or film that is at least 5 years old or I have already purchased it on any of my consoles or I have already seen in the cinema. And just like the description said, I garantee all of you have downloaded at least one mp3 free of charge. You've all pirated.

Edit: And towards everyone who says that anybody who pirates deserves it needs to check the laws again. If for example someone who pirates files uses someones computer to download a film the people who own the internet connection will be held responsible, not the person who downloaded the file, and so these innocent people would have their internet disconnected without a trial, and would actually have to pay the government to be given one. Not only that, but let's say that someone's internet connection is slowed down extremely and wanted to download a file very badly: They could simply walk into their local library, then wirelessly connect to that and download a torrent. What would the government do then, pull the internet of the entire library?

Even if you don't agree with piracy you must agree that the laws surrounding the Act are very shakey.

Hey guys, I just made a found Facebook event for the 11th of June 2010 all-day called National Pirates Day. It's aimed towards a recent Act that was passed in the UK but anyone else who is interested in the matter can join.

Anyway if any of you are wondering what this is and think it sounds very childish and nerdy here's the description:

What is the point of National Pirate Day? Well recently the government passed a bill called the Digital Economy Act 2010, which means that if you are found pirating too many films, music or games and don't stop after recieving warnings your internet is slowed down significantly or disconnected altogether. Have you ever downloaded an .mp3 of the latest Black Eyed Peas track? Then you have pirated and could risk having your internet disconnected or slowed down a lot. And National Pirate Day is how we're gonna protest against this. The day before the Act commences, which would be the 11th of June 2010, just download and pirate as much copyrighted material as you can, whether that be films, games, television shows or music, preferably by using The Pirate Bay.org. We can show them that you can't ban every single one of us!

You can say if you are Attending here, I personally definiately am.

Someone want to take a shot at making me a Dragon Age signature? :)
I'll leave it open for you to do it however you want, just make sure my name (Almightymints) is on there and that it's roughly the same size as my current sig (I want to keep my XBL Gamer Card in there)

Thanks in advance :D

Almighty-mints

Here you go, and sorry about the size, I only saw your note just now.

Feedback is appreciated if you want it improved. :)

I don't Suppose anyone could make me a sig using this image? I'd do it myself but the last time I tried using gimp my brain imploded.

Pixel-Pirate

Here you go. Let me know if you have any problems with it. :)

Hey guys, I decided that I'm going to be doing some sigs for any of you guys that want a cool-looking one. :)

Anyway, if you want a sig, post in this format.

Name:
Theme (character, building, game, etc):
Ideas (prefered so I can stretch my Photoshop skills and improve, but not necessary):

Here's an example of my work.