So what is it really all about at the end of the day? Is it about how much I give back to the music, movie, and video game industry in dollar amounts or is it about how much I steal from them? People assume that just because you download would mean that you would go to the store and by it otherwise.
If every year I actually spend more money on those types of media than someone who doesn't download those things illegally, haven't I actually helped the industry more? Shouldn't they care more about how much I spend at the end of the day? I would just buy stuff second hand on the market anyways as buying things brand new all the time would be obscenely expensive. So I would actually probably give them less money back if I didn't download it illegally. They would essentially be losing business.
I'm not necessarily trying to justify what I do. Its against the law. I'm honest about it, but I don't feel sorry for doing it. I am sure if I went through anyone's life who speaks out against downloading that I would find a lot of dirty laundry. I'm just open with mine.
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
