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1. One advantage of paying a company such as Apple for music is that you know the music is legitimate and does not violate any laws, such as the copyright act. Additionally because the music is legally copied then the quality will be good 100% of the time.
2. One disadvantage of buying pirated DVD's is that even though you think you are buying a new film for a knock-off price, most of the time pirates are cheap forgeries with very little quality.
3. The disadvantage here is that disk's burned in other countries may not necessarily work on UK DVD palyers, so again your money is ripped off.
4. A disadvantage of downloading music illegally through a file sharing site is that there is always a chance you can get caught doing it, because there are people who regulate internet sites, and their users, authorities could easily track down people who use these sites.
5. I think that widespread illicit downloading does discourage funding seeing as there is no point in trying to get peope to buy the music, when some people out there will find a way to get it free.