Is the Pirate Bay down?

[TheRealMafoo]

sieanr said:

TheRealMafoo said:

How are my views about piracy any different then my views about taxes? I feel when you tax people for the purpose of strictly giving those funds to someone else who has done nothing to earn them, is stealing. Just like this.

As saying just because everyone breaks the law, that it's ok to break the law... well.. I don't even know what to say about that.

Everything you have said in this thread, is just justification for feeling ok about doing something wrong.  If it helps you sleep at night, more power to ya.

The funny thing is your tax dollars are being used to build roads on the other side of the country. Do you think we should stop road construction because homeless people will benefit from that road?

Oh, and its funny how people haven't pointed out the obvious. Stealing is taking a persons properity and then depriving them of that propery. With piracy the original owner still has their property.

 

 

I am not talking about taxes to run the country. I am talking about entitlements. Funds that are given away as apposed to funds that are spent.

And we can debate if you think intellectual property can be owned or not, but the way the law reads today, we have copy write laws to protect intellectual property. Consuming it without paying for it if one chooses to charge for it, is stealing. Any way you slice it.