Who hates piracy?

[Killergran]

kuraobi said:

Killergran said:

"You've fallen into the trap of believing that in some way you just DESERVE to have these things..." 

Why shouldn't I? Really, what's to say that some rich kid that inherited his money deserves his lifestyle better than I do? Capitalism, that's what.

Piracy shifts money away from the industry pirated. That's true. But those money go somewhere. They do not just dissappear. What one industry looses from piracy, another gains. The money might go to things like houses, food, healthproducs, savings, whatever. The same is true for stealing, with the exception that stealing makes someone lose money as well. With piracy, the wealth you gain from an extra video-game is not equal to the loss someone elses videogame.

It is my firm belief that every human on this planet deserve as high a livingstandard as can possibly be provided for them, given that that standard does not negatively effect someone else's. If thinking this makes me colder and less humane, so be it.

 

Thing is you can't have any high living standard without other people working and making stuff for you. And people won't do anything for you if they don't get anything in return (ie: money). So if someone has more money than you, it's because he earned it at some point. Of course you can argue about people getting money more easily than they should, like with stocks or inherited, but that's not the point.

And of course the money goes somewhere else, but the developer doesn't get paid for his work.

This bolded part is simply not true (depending on what value you put into the word 'earn'). I'm not saying it cannot be true in some cases, but it's most definately more often false than true. Anyone who believes it is true is "brainwashed" by capitalism.

'I have more money than you and therefore I deserve a better lifestyle' is a first world capitalist excuse that is as stupid as they come. The world is unfair, and I can deal with that. Someone telling me that this is the way it should be is not something I can deal with.

And no. The developer doesn't get paid for his work. It's unfair. It's bad. Never said anything else, never thought anything else.