Hi everyone,
For the last few months my boyfriend and I have had on and off conversation about internet piracy. I'm of the stance that it's stealing, it's immoral, and we as Christians shouldn't do it. He used to be of the mindset that piracy wasn't stealing and was therefore okay. However, when I explained that it's illegal, he realized that I have a point and agreed not to do it anymore.
We might have a bit of a quandary about an app that he uses that allows him to download YouTube videos to his phone to watch offline (music, tutorials, whatever he's interested in). I spent hours researching to see if there's some way this could be legal and, unless it's not copyrighted, it's not legal.
So anyway, I intend to bring this up to him, but when I tried to broach the subject on a phone call just now, he started to sound frustrated so I backed off. We've had extensive discussions about legality and civil suits and the coding that goes into how YouTube works, etc. So me not being comfortable with internet piracy or the like is not a new subject for him.
My question is: I have determined that the way he uses this third party app is not legal (it has the option to stream and download YouTube videos without a lot of YouTube website fluff, so to speak--I think the download part is the only part that isn't legal). But if he decides to continue to download copyrighted stuff, despite me pointing out that it's illegal... my thought is that isn't really grounds to break up with him. Or maybe it should be? I know he's a man who tries to do the right thing and to follow God. I might be over reacting if I broke up with him over this... but I wanted to see what others think. Granted, in this day and age, I sort of feel like getting mad at him for this would be like getting mad at him for speeding--and I want to bring this up graciously, so I'm waiting until later when he's not tired. I just tend to think in terms of our future kids--is he gonna tell them it's ok to do this?
For the last few months my boyfriend and I have had on and off conversation about internet piracy. I'm of the stance that it's stealing, it's immoral, and we as Christians shouldn't do it. He used to be of the mindset that piracy wasn't stealing and was therefore okay. However, when I explained that it's illegal, he realized that I have a point and agreed not to do it anymore.
We might have a bit of a quandary about an app that he uses that allows him to download YouTube videos to his phone to watch offline (music, tutorials, whatever he's interested in). I spent hours researching to see if there's some way this could be legal and, unless it's not copyrighted, it's not legal.
So anyway, I intend to bring this up to him, but when I tried to broach the subject on a phone call just now, he started to sound frustrated so I backed off. We've had extensive discussions about legality and civil suits and the coding that goes into how YouTube works, etc. So me not being comfortable with internet piracy or the like is not a new subject for him.
My question is: I have determined that the way he uses this third party app is not legal (it has the option to stream and download YouTube videos without a lot of YouTube website fluff, so to speak--I think the download part is the only part that isn't legal). But if he decides to continue to download copyrighted stuff, despite me pointing out that it's illegal... my thought is that isn't really grounds to break up with him. Or maybe it should be? I know he's a man who tries to do the right thing and to follow God. I might be over reacting if I broke up with him over this... but I wanted to see what others think. Granted, in this day and age, I sort of feel like getting mad at him for this would be like getting mad at him for speeding--and I want to bring this up graciously, so I'm waiting until later when he's not tired. I just tend to think in terms of our future kids--is he gonna tell them it's ok to do this?
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