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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
File lockers are popular because they offer a better delivery method? ROFL
If you like stealing stuff or getting stuff for free, just admit it, I don't have a problem with that. It's when people try to make this into some sort of complicated argument regarding business models and free speech is when it gets silly.
Maybe I just hang around honest people in real life, but everyone I know who torrents content just says they do it because it's free. I never argue with them or even have a problem with them because at least they are being honest. If you like free stuff and there is a legal loophole to get what you want, go ahead and do it, but don't try to make it out like doing so makes you some sort of future-savvy businessman or freedom fighter who is fighting for all of our freedom in the digital age.
If you want to fight for freedom, go ahead and do it. But torrenting the latest season of Dexter because you are too poor to afford Showtime or the DVD box set doesn't make you the next MLK.
At least be honest with yourself. That's really my only issues with this whole debate, the people who fool themselves into thinking they are part of something larger in order to rationalize their own theft. There are certain things I can't afford like yachts and super cars, but if I could get them for free by stealing with no repercussion, I just might do it. But at least I would admit that I just stole them, I wouldn't weave some convoluted Robin Hood type argument to rationalize my theft.
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What amazes me is the lengths that people will go to just to save a few dollars. My brother's son has downloaded a ton of music illegally. In the process of doing so he got their computer so infected with spyware and viruses that it took me three hours to get it working right again. So I am talking to my brother and explaining that this could turn out bad if the boy gets caught. My brother agrees, but his son and my brother's wife are both fully convinced that since it is available to download it is free and they are not doing anything illegal.
So I block a bunch of the sites that they use to download stuff and the boy spends hours trying to find new sites to download from. I tell him about Spotify and Pandora and some other free music sites or even sites you can pay a few dollars for and get unlimited music and it was like I had asked him to spend a million dollars. He would rather spend hours trying to hunt down the songs he wants than pay a few dollars a month or even use a legit free music service. When I mentioned he could just buy them at 99cents per song it was almost like I had insulted him. It is a strange mentality.