I find this entire thread amazing. Such a high percentage of people posting here are justifying copying DVDs or downloading stuff for free (that isn't meant to be free) with a kind of ends-justifies-the-means attitude. Has our society become so morally relative that we're justifying performing illegal acts because it only hurts millionaires (which isn't necessarily true, BTW)? So, is murder all right if you only kill old people? Is rape okay if you only rape prostitutes?
I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to the "I deserve this DVD" attitude, or the "I can't afford it so I'll just take it anyway because I want it" attitude. I've been poor a lot of my adult life, and if I couldn't afford something, I just did without it. Or, I earned and saved the money to buy it. I didn't take something that didn't rightfully belong to me simply because I couldn't afford it and those who were selling it had a lot more money than I did.
I honestly don't get the justification. The "it's not so bad/there are worse crimes" stuff is a slippery slope because, short of genocide, there is always something worse you could be doing.
Sorry if I don't agree with the majority of folks here, but I don't. I made my kids get rid of Kazaa on their computers once I knew what it was about, and I don't copy DVDs or download movies off the Internet. My kids now buy their music from iTunes or Real Rhapsody. The only thing I tape any more is Survivor on Thursday nights -- and only for our own personal use.
Next you people will be taping baseball games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball!