Very good
...although I can't say I really understand this populist pro-piracy uprising. I've been a proverbial Long John Silver in my time, but I've never been under any illusion that what I do isn't fundamentally theft. *shrugs*
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Thy Maker Sigs are rubbish, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 18:22,
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I think Stehen Fry has it about right.
People will download stuff, but they'll feel guilty for it and pay for what they like.
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Infringement isn't theft.
Copyright cannot be stolen. It can be infringed. There's a difference.
Grabbing a hooky copy of something might well be illegal, and morally dodgy as well, but it is not, can never be, and will never be theft.
I wish the pro-copyright lobby hadn't abused the English language to make its point. I'd have more respect for the cunts if they were more honest, instead of blatantly lying about what theft is. You know, something along the lines of, "You know all those musicians who made all that great music you like? Well, they've got to eat, too, so why not pony up a few quid instead of getting copies off your mates?"
I buy most of my music these days from CD Baby, out in Oregon. Everything they sell is independent, and isn't poisoned by those cunts at the major labels. Plus, they're usually a fuckload cheaper than the crap from the major labels, even when factoring in international postage. Independent, and costs less. How could I refuse?
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flake has nothing against your right leg, Sat 3 Oct 2009, 0:35,
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This is what I don't get.
Regardless of how you dress it up, surely the point is that there's a infringment/crime/whatever being committed in the first place? How does deflecting the argument on a technicality make the original action acceptable?
It's like deflecting an accusation of shitting in someone's lunchbox with "actually, it's not my shit, it's my dog's! I just put it in there. You twunt. How dare you accuse *me* of shitting in it!"
Not squaring up for a fight, honest! It just fascinates me!
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Thy Maker Sigs are rubbish, Sat 3 Oct 2009, 9:42,
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Well, I think it's more to do with deprivement.
If I come to your house, and steal your telly - you've been deprived of a telly. If I download Lily's latest bop-fantastic from the Interwebz, nobody is actually deprived of anything. Those people who bought it, still have it. No actual thieving has occurred, just sweet digital information flowing through the pipes.
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It's a little bit tenuous..
...but here's a question. Quite a few posters on here have set up Cafepress shops selling t-shirts etc emblazened with their work. Do you think it's morally OK for people to dubiously download hi-res versions of that work and put it into their own t-shirts rather than rewarding the original creativity shown?
PS - leave my telly alone, dammit! :)
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Thy Maker Sigs are rubbish, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 23:53,
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