What is your stance on piracy?

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truthiness said:

XiaoMay said:

akuma587 said:

 

Where do you get off judging others for pirating anyways? Did the RIAA appoint you or something? Seriously, don't throw stones when you live in a glass house. I am sure all of us have done much worse things than pirating music.

Using the same rigid moral standards as you, if you ever had premarital sex, you are going to be severely punished for it, not only in the Judeo-Christian moral system, but in most of the moral systems around the world. Have you had pre-marital sex? That is worse than pirating and it looks like you are going to go to hell for it.

Well, I didn't judge anybody, as I said to you in my previous post, it's my opinion, my way to do, I don't care about what YOU do and I respect it.

Of course, if the industry crumble because of piracy like PSP is doing, I will be affected too...

Also, I have the right to give my opinion because I am myself a creator and I have always felt raped whenever my work is stolen. That's it.

And about moral, I am GAY. So yeah, I had A LOT of pre marital sex, don't worry. So much for my rigidity, hey.

You are a creator? You don't say? Well since everyone here is a creator, that means absolutely nothing. My comment about it being a crime here deals with the SCALE of copyright infringement. Commercial and large scale is a crime. Everything else is a tort. Your country's laws may vary (I'm assuming you are Japanese, though you don't say) which is sort of amusing that you project morality of an act based on the law. You continue to do so, and still try to use straw man defenses to defend yourself.

So because the PSP has terrible sales (you blame piracy, I look at the gameboy, ds, gba that all had extensive piracy and laugh) you believe that you have some moral justification to bitch about it. OK, I'll do you one better. Charter schools are hiring non-licensed teachers and killing my union's bargaining power. I'm affected by it, so therefore I should have a right to imprison them or sue them because my union has failed to react to their presense. Right? I mean if I'm affected by something, I have some kind of legal standing to bitch, piss, and moan and take legal action against them?

Your work was stolen? Really? So you've had your house broken into? You've been denied use of your property? Damn, so have I. People broke into my house all the time in college. That's why I got insurance. Why don't you get insurance for your imaginary property? Oh, they don't sell it? Why not? It's imaginary? That's odd... I thought you said they were the same thing? So you mean you were just spouting hyperbole so that you can make a martyr of yourself? Oh... ya that's amazing.

Perhaps I can start a straw man argument about being gay denies churches of income due to a lack of gay marriage, and therefore is violation of their intellectual property. Or is my argument a too ridiculous extension of your ridiculous argument? 

Dude, put the pipe down. What the hell does half of that mean? I am just going to call you an idiot and move along. But I absolutely had to do it in a post.

 

Your school argument alone has me perplexed. Is what they are doing illegal? If so, then yes, you should do something about it. If not, then it just sucks and maybe you should take action to have it made illegal. At any rate, it holds no real water at all. Why are you picking on someone that clearly stated they have an opinion? You disagree, but one of those two opinions in on the side of the law and basc moral principles, and thee other is yours. Let it go. Agree to disagree.