Piracy Critic Admits to Huge Pirated Music Collection
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All I see is greed in all vigorous opponents of piracy I encounter. I'm trying to take an even handed approach but I'm repeatedly put off by people like this. Are there any reasonable people who don't want to see intellectual property laws completely overhauled?
I already covered this earlier. Regardless of their wishes, they have no choice but to feed me. It is the law. Their responsibility.Jroo wuz heer said:
This would be true if I pirated any of these things. But I can say I don't pirate anything, including music. Buy everything off itunes.FloodOne said:
This whole mess is indeed lolworthy, but
One person's hypocrisy doesn't justify another person's actions. Maybe it makes you feel better about what you do, but that doesn't make it right.
It's easy to talk ourselves into doing things we know we shouldn't if we honestly believe that nobody's being hurt. This is a bit of an extreme example of thick-headedness, since as someone who relies on content creation for living, Ragde should have recognized the consequences her actions have on others in the same situation. But hey, it's just one song, right? They play it on the radio all the time anyway...dastardly said:
One person's hypocrisy doesn't justify another person's actions. Maybe it makes you feel better about what you do, but that doesn't make it right.
I noticed this little discussion and wanted to speak my own thoughts about it just to see what other people here think.Andy Chalk said:
I owe NOTHING to my parents. They chose to give birth to me and raise me so I feel no obligation to them. Sure, you could bring up the argument that they care about me to death and what not, but sometimes, they infuriate me for those very reasons. They pay too much attention to everything I do, which can limit some of the things that I can do that I want to do, and it makes me sick. I'm sure this makes me sound childish, but this is honestly how I feel. :/
Oh wait a second, I just noticed part of what I said is exactly what Jiraiya was saying. Oh well, at least someone else on here openly agrees with me.
Hm, on the one hand, I'm not surprised, as naturally the only kind of piracy people are most likely to feel really bad about is one that affects them or someone they know. She's committed the usual faux pas of taking too strong a stance on something that she actually has a mixed relationship with. Politicians do this all the time.
On the other hand, I think she's perfectly justified in dropping her son in it - after all, he dropped her in it first. I'm sorry, but if you behave in that way toward your mother, she can turn right around and do the same thing to you. He's not 3 years old and can't pull the 'out of the mouths of babes' excuse. He knew what his words would do. Regardless of the circumstances, mothers are not doormats, and kids who deliberately do things to damage their parents should not be immune from some sort of retribution. It's not like he blew the whistle on her secret kidnapping and torture of Jewish children or something. He just decided to shit-stir.
On the other hand, I think she's perfectly justified in dropping her son in it - after all, he dropped her in it first. I'm sorry, but if you behave in that way toward your mother, she can turn right around and do the same thing to you. He's not 3 years old and can't pull the 'out of the mouths of babes' excuse. He knew what his words would do. Regardless of the circumstances, mothers are not doormats, and kids who deliberately do things to damage their parents should not be immune from some sort of retribution. It's not like he blew the whistle on her secret kidnapping and torture of Jewish children or something. He just decided to shit-stir.
lol what a complete tool! Seriously I love it when those who are most vocal are humiliated like this. Hypocrisy at its finest.
there are so many wrong replies here that the only thing i'll say is that they're all a bunch of hypocrits... hahahaha
Also,RDubayoo said:
1) Give me a game that's worth $60
2) Make sure I get all of the game, not bits an pieces of depending on what store I buy it from and what DLC I get
3) Why should we feel sorry for the developers not making enough (what is enough anyway?) when 1 out of every 10 people are unemployed, hence making used (cheaper) games a commodity that is important to the business?
The price of how much a game costs pretty much depends on the person buying it. I could say 'Give me a game that's worth $1' and say that I would rather buy them for a cent :O.RowdyRodimus said:
Haha, she's just like those gay-bashing Bible-belters who turn out to be closet homosexuals or fetish artists. Oh, irony. Or maybe cognitive dissonance? It's not like she really lost that money, anyways. Who could have said that all those pirates would really have bought her books anyways if they couldn't pirate? Maybe they never had a chance of being sales...
I'm not going to insult her by calling her a hypocrite, I'm just gonna say she shouldn't have gotten caught XD
I'm occasionally hypocritical, I don't enjoy being so, but it happens. Though I CAN say I probably won't build a career on LIES! >:O, exaggerating, but the point stands.
I'm occasionally hypocritical, I don't enjoy being so, but it happens. Though I CAN say I probably won't build a career on LIES! >:O, exaggerating, but the point stands.
Oy...I love it when people are caught in their own web of lies...
People have to worry about public image WAY the fuck too much these days, no one has the balls to just come out and admit their mistakes.
Then again, anti-piracy laws are becoming so extreme that people do have every reason to fear being found out as a pirate. Yes, piracy is wrong but to be honest, it reminds me of the south park episode entailing piracy, "Thanks to internet piracy, Britney could only afford the Turbo Jet Mach 4 instead of what she really wanted, a Mach 5. The Mach 4 doesn't even have a remote for the DVD player."
I think maybe one decently good example of where piracy has been a real, financial problem for a company is Iron Lore for Titan Quest, but -even then- the game had so many bugs and programming issues that just deterred people from buying it (seriously, if you've never played titan quest, lemme just say that it invented a new type of lag called Rubber-banding).
So really, I know it's still stealing but if a movie comes out and a couple of thousand people pirate it, and a couple of million people (including many of the pirates themselves) go to a theater to see it, who the hell really cares?
People have to worry about public image WAY the fuck too much these days, no one has the balls to just come out and admit their mistakes.
Then again, anti-piracy laws are becoming so extreme that people do have every reason to fear being found out as a pirate. Yes, piracy is wrong but to be honest, it reminds me of the south park episode entailing piracy, "Thanks to internet piracy, Britney could only afford the Turbo Jet Mach 4 instead of what she really wanted, a Mach 5. The Mach 4 doesn't even have a remote for the DVD player."
I think maybe one decently good example of where piracy has been a real, financial problem for a company is Iron Lore for Titan Quest, but -even then- the game had so many bugs and programming issues that just deterred people from buying it (seriously, if you've never played titan quest, lemme just say that it invented a new type of lag called Rubber-banding).
So really, I know it's still stealing but if a movie comes out and a couple of thousand people pirate it, and a couple of million people (including many of the pirates themselves) go to a theater to see it, who the hell really cares?
