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I think piracy is morally wrong. It's quite simple. Take your argument for pro-piracy to the logical conclusion. Everyone consumes all media through piracy. Does that world look as entertaining as the logical conclusion of people pay money into the system that creates the entertainment?

I think it'd be hard to argue that a system where people have to give up time and resources to produce something consumed by those who put nothing back into the system is sustainable.

Pirates benefit from the system without contributing to the system. That's morally wrong.

I find it hypocritical that the very software systems that enable people to pirate have built in algorithms to limit the activities of those who take more than they share. Those who take but don't give back are called leeches and even the leeches don't like leeches.



Well, let's take pro-copyright to it's obvious solution.

You owe a MASSIVE amount of money to the heirs of Shakespeare, anybody of Greek descent, Decartes/Leibniz/Newton, etc. etc. for your early education.

Because, if copyright really is a moral right it doesn't expire and you have a lot of back taxes to pay.

Cough it up.




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