One of the reasons why people pirate stuff is because pirates typically provide (unless you are just downloading the utter shit out there) 1) better products, 2) with better selection, 3) with more convenience.
If you compare the selection of the largest private music trackers out there with even the selection of Itunes, you will be shocked at how much better the selection on an ILLEGAL website is than that of a LEGAL one.
The entertainment industry is just finally coming around and figuring this out. Kasz has it right that people do want to pay for things (although I think this is more motivated out of fear than altruism). But if you are PAYING for something, you should be getting BETTER service, not worse service. The paid services are still far inferior to the illegal ones out there.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
