@Samurai – there is no deterrent for you to delete the torrent or not burn a copy to DVD. When you rent a DVD, if you don’t return it they charge you full retail and fuck up your credit if you don’t pay them. Rental places don’t just buy DVDs like people do for $20 at Best Buy, they pay considerably more for them because they are paying for a license to the owner of the copyright to allow them to rent out the DVDs. And we’re not talking about torrents anyway, we’re talking about someone buying a single user copy of copyrighted content, and making a digital copy of it, without paying any distribution fee to the copyright owner, and turning 100% profit on the finished product. Are you telling me that you go to the Asian market, buy $4 knock off DVDs and then throw the DVDs away? If you did, then just like deleting a torrent, morally you’re not basically getting a copy to OWN without paying for the fee to own a copy of the content, you are just paying to watch it. But what incentive is there to go the route that’s illegal (and is illegal because no one’s going to force you to delete the torrent or throw away the disc), when you could rent the movie for a buck in the Redbox, $3 at the video store, get unlimited rentals for a few bucks a month at Netflix, or buy a used copy in a pawn shop for 3 or 4 bucks, borrow a buddy’s copy, go check it out at the library for free or maybe 50 cents a night depending on your library, or pay to see it int he theaters if what you’re interested in is seeing the movie one time and one time only, and WILL be happy to pay for it if you actually want to own it? All you’re doing is justifying unjustifiable behavior by trying to confuse the issue and compare apples to rutabegas. It’s stealing legally speaking…sure it’s only stealing morally speaking if you keep a copy, but copyright owners can control distribution better than usage, so they have ways to sell and rent movies where they do get paid for each copy that is in circulation. If someone distributes copies that the owner did not make or authorize and makes a profit doing so, they are pirates, if someone knowingly buys the illegal copy, they are stealing…it’s no different than if someone stole a million dollars worth of merchandise and put it up for sale on the street, if you bought that shirt for $5 that you know was stolen, because you know it would cost $50 at the store and you think $50 is too much money, you are knowingly receiving stolen property, you are breaking the law, and even if you are just going to wear the shirt once, you still received stolen property. So why do it when there’s a Ragstock down the street where you can get that shirt used for say $8 and you know it was bought and paid for…if you can’t afford new, don’t buy new, but don’t steal it, buy used, rent or borrow. Your attempts to justify any other behavior wouldn’t stand up in court and the sure as hell aren’t going to fly on Fluther, sorry.