the making of a pirate

it's unnerving.

i got the idea from my bro who suggested that i'd borrow vcd's from the video rental shop in our neighborhood and have them burnt instead of frequenting the records store at gateway or elsewhere. he knows i don't like buying pirated video's so i end up spending a fortune eversince i got a dvd player. not that i have anything against those who patronize pirated cds, i just fear being short-changed. i dont like the disappointment that comes when the movie i'm yearning to watch turns out to be dubbed in a language i cannot comprehend. or discovering that i am not alone watching the film in the comforts of my home with all the murmurs and coughing in the cinema captured in the re-recording by who else but the pirate him/her self.

it took a while before i had the gumption to actually do what my brother said i could do. thought it was practical and cost-effective but on second thought, i wouldn't have the original video, and yes, i deemed it was piracy. but then again maybe it was not gumption that i had to muster but rather to find the time to visit the video shop and have my membership renewed so i could resume borrowing films i missed.

so today i did it. i was both thrilled and anxious each time i clicked "copy". was it theft? was it cheating? was i stealing an intellectual property? was it really piracy? well, it's not like i'm going to mass reproduce those films, sell and turn them into dough. it's for personal entertainment. people are doing it anyway. i always maintain that having many people doing something doesn't make a thing right. but just this time i opted to put aside my principle of going against the tide.

oh the heck with it, i got copies of films i want to watch over and over, and i'll get more. enjoy pala. :-)