Confessions of a pirate

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The Ghost of RubangB said:
I think stealing from individuals is evil and stealing from corporations deserves somewhere between a slap on the wrist and a congratulations, depending on which corporation it was.


If you steal some ones and zeroes over the internet from multimedia conglomerates, I don't care.

If you steal a car or a laptop, eat shit and die.

If you steal a $100 pair of Nikes, fuck yes, you're a hero. That money wasn't going to the starving slaves in Indonesia anyway.


Corporations don't have morals or even bodies. Their job is to take as much money from us as possible. Our job is to give them as little money as possible, if any at all. If they're not going to be held to the same standards as individuals are, then they shouldn't get the same moral high ground when they're being robbed blind. Fuck 'em.

Laughable.

If you steal, your stealing from someone.

If you steal a person's laptop, you can put a face and a name to it. Shoplift, and you can put a store, and group of people on it. Steal from a corporation, and your stealing from even more people. Regardless of how you want to justify it, your hurting people. The difference is that instead of stealing $1000 from 1 person, your stealing $1 from 1000 people. It's the same friggin' thing.

Go ahead and praise pirates, but the next time you throw down $50 or $60 for a DRM-laden game, you have pirates to thank for those prices, and you better not whine about the pricetag.

And FYI: If your still taking the road that corporations are faceless, therefore able to be robbed, in America we have something called "donations" and "charitable giving" in order to lower the companies tax burden, they give away billions of dollars a year to the poor and helpless in the country. But guess what? They can't do that because your robbing them of cash. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the like have given more money to charity and helped more people than you have, yet you take money that could be given to the needy because "it's a corporation". Grow up, and grow a pair. If you want something, buy it. Why is stealing a car any different than stealing a DVD? Your still robbing a programmer or developer of their art form.