...now I dialed 9-1-1 a long time ago don't you see how late they reactin' they only come when they come when they wanna so get the morgue truck and embalm the goner they don't care cause they stay paid anyway
Yet another attempt at mitigating the guilt you feel.
If you weren't ignorant of the economics of creating content you would already be aware that the theft in question does not involve denying someone something. What you are stealing is not the music itself, but the opportunity for the artist or label to sell you a copy. You can babble all you want about you having no plans to buy one anyway but it doesn't matter. In pure economic terms you represent a potential sale that was lost due to piracy.
One of the greatest contributions that the field of economics has made to society in general has been the concepts of opportunity cost and potential opportunity. Your ignorance of both of these in no way changes your guilt in this matter.
Are you under the impression that copyright law requires record labels to provide you with CDs that you can play in the manner you want? If so, allow me to enlighten you: It does not.
For the life of me I don't understand why you people keep dancing around this issue. You are all stealing. You can point your fingers in all sorts of directions in an attempt to deflect the blame (like your you will have forced me) but the truth of the matter is that you are stealing, plain and simple.
You don't need music. Even if you no one is obligated to give it to you. Crying about crippled CDs, that you brought on yourself by stealing in the first place, doesn't make it OK.
I don't see what the hell people going out and buying music that they have downloaded has to do with anything.
It might make you feel better, but you still stole the music in the first place. You still violated copyright law by making a copy of music you didn't own.
Just stop stealing stuff. Your conscience isn't going to be happy with all of these lame attempts to justify doing it by claiming that 'everyone else is' or 'the artists are getting screwed anyway' or 'I'll buy the album later'. Just stop stealing in the first place.
Well thats good to know. I'm sure that Sun is feeling pretty good about themselves right now, and at Microsoft's expense, who I bet is busy rethinking strategy after reading your comment.
I'm even feeling good about this right now, knowing that the next time you bring me my pizza you won't be hampered by any technical glitches brought about by shoddy hardware.
The thing is: 'Regular folks' don't want to help you. Helping you and the EFF rip off the companies who produce creative works isn't something that normal upright citizens care to do.
I'm in the 'normal people' group, at least I'm not a geek. I am perfectly happy to enter into an agreement whereby a company provides me with something, be it news or DSL service or a movie or music, and I pay them some money. I have no desire to steal things (except radar detectors out of cars. People who leave them in plain sight are just asking for it) and I recognize the fact that they own it, thus they get to tell me what I can and can't do with it.
You geeks and your EFF allies just want to make it legal to steal. You want to be able to download a copy of the latest Star Wars movie off the internet without fear of reprisal from the company that owns it. You and your crypto cracking DVD thief friends. Getting the message out to the non-thieves is only going to bring you scorn and shame. Here is a novel idea, why don't you just do what everyone else does and pay for the things you want? Yeah, you won't be able to have everything, but thats the breaks. I want a new Perazzi but I can't afford one so life goes on.
Why don't you start asking for donations from people serving time? They might be more receptive to your demands than normals.
There cell networks are so good in socialist countires because no one has a fucking cell phone. The broadband service is good because no one has a fucking computer.
Right now someone is probably riding a goat past your windows on their way down to the community well to get up some water to boil the 6 potatoes they'll be serving to their family of 14 for day's meal, and you are sitting there yammering on a cell phone and posting to Slashdot about how wonderful socialism is. Look at your neighbors, they are stick people. They live in a house made out of dirt and cardboard. Have some compassion for fuck's sake. The packets that arrive at your home via big fat cable lines do so at the expense of the less fortunate bottom dwellers you callously tread upon.
Bastard.
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Problem is the 32" flat panel TV is actually a 15" Optimus TV/VCR combo that he pretends is a 32" flat panel.
You stupid fucking bastard, the source was the author, how the fuck more authentic can you get?
It seems to me that it is now more important than ever to buy a Microsoft product so your don't fall prey to wicked hackers because the 16 year old pizza delivery boy who wrote the software that blits rectangles to your screen was running a compromised version of glibc that allowed a 25 year old pedophile from Pakistan to insert a trojan in said rectangle blitting program.
Just buy it from Microsoft. A) They have a vested interest is selling you good software. B) You won't end up with 5000 little screwball codelets each designed to perform some miniscule function, that are impossible for you to actually audit because you don't have enough time, even if you gave up anime AND skipped the Harry Potter premiere.
Hi boss, I was hoping to run some software on the network here.
Whats that? Oh, no, it doesn't have anything to do with work.
Yes, it will have an adverse effect on the network performance but this web site I read claims it won't be all that bad.
Oh really? I should get the fuck back to work and quit fucking around with bullshit worthless personal stuff on company time or you'll fire the shit out of me?
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B) Now that we have established that downloading music is theft, who gets to decide what theft is OK or generally accepted?
...now I dialed 9-1-1 a long time ago
don't you see how late they reactin'
they only come when they come when they wanna
so get the morgue truck and embalm the goner
they don't care cause they stay paid anyway
If you weren't ignorant of the economics of creating content you would already be aware that the theft in question does not involve denying someone something. What you are stealing is not the music itself, but the opportunity for the artist or label to sell you a copy. You can babble all you want about you having no plans to buy one anyway but it doesn't matter. In pure economic terms you represent a potential sale that was lost due to piracy.
One of the greatest contributions that the field of economics has made to society in general has been the concepts of opportunity cost and potential opportunity. Your ignorance of both of these in no way changes your guilt in this matter.
Its worth more than a Linux CD!
For the life of me I don't understand why you people keep dancing around this issue. You are all stealing. You can point your fingers in all sorts of directions in an attempt to deflect the blame (like your you will have forced me) but the truth of the matter is that you are stealing, plain and simple.
You don't need music. Even if you no one is obligated to give it to you. Crying about crippled CDs, that you brought on yourself by stealing in the first place, doesn't make it OK.
It might make you feel better, but you still stole the music in the first place. You still violated copyright law by making a copy of music you didn't own.
Just stop stealing stuff. Your conscience isn't going to be happy with all of these lame attempts to justify doing it by claiming that 'everyone else is' or 'the artists are getting screwed anyway' or 'I'll buy the album later'. Just stop stealing in the first place.
This story is full of great replies. I think I'll print this thread out and frame it. Great post AC.
Helluva post neal n bob, helluva post. Kinda reminds me of me.
Loves to see man stuff in action.
Are you the stupidest motherfucker alive or have I just not met him yet?
I'm even feeling good about this right now, knowing that the next time you bring me my pizza you won't be hampered by any technical glitches brought about by shoddy hardware.
I'm in the 'normal people' group, at least I'm not a geek. I am perfectly happy to enter into an agreement whereby a company provides me with something, be it news or DSL service or a movie or music, and I pay them some money. I have no desire to steal things (except radar detectors out of cars. People who leave them in plain sight are just asking for it) and I recognize the fact that they own it, thus they get to tell me what I can and can't do with it.
You geeks and your EFF allies just want to make it legal to steal. You want to be able to download a copy of the latest Star Wars movie off the internet without fear of reprisal from the company that owns it. You and your crypto cracking DVD thief friends. Getting the message out to the non-thieves is only going to bring you scorn and shame. Here is a novel idea, why don't you just do what everyone else does and pay for the things you want? Yeah, you won't be able to have everything, but thats the breaks. I want a new Perazzi but I can't afford one so life goes on.
Why don't you start asking for donations from people serving time? They might be more receptive to your demands than normals.
Top notch first post. Top notch.
They have already released a patch, but you fucking idiots don't worry about that shit.
Well, he accomplished lifting and smooching me this morning pretty well, but I think I'll let him keep that crown.
He means Microsoft and the media should, he doesn't want your Open Source shit.
Apache and Professional should not be in the same sentence.
Neither should Red Hat.
Right now someone is probably riding a goat past your windows on their way down to the community well to get up some water to boil the 6 potatoes they'll be serving to their family of 14 for day's meal, and you are sitting there yammering on a cell phone and posting to Slashdot about how wonderful socialism is. Look at your neighbors, they are stick people. They live in a house made out of dirt and cardboard. Have some compassion for fuck's sake. The packets that arrive at your home via big fat cable lines do so at the expense of the less fortunate bottom dwellers you callously tread upon.
Bastard.
See, thats why the Mac would be the focal point.
In which case I'm suprised it took this long.
It seems to me that it is now more important than ever to buy a Microsoft product so your don't fall prey to wicked hackers because the 16 year old pizza delivery boy who wrote the software that blits rectangles to your screen was running a compromised version of glibc that allowed a 25 year old pedophile from Pakistan to insert a trojan in said rectangle blitting program.
Just buy it from Microsoft. A) They have a vested interest is selling you good software. B) You won't end up with 5000 little screwball codelets each designed to perform some miniscule function, that are impossible for you to actually audit because you don't have enough time, even if you gave up anime AND skipped the Harry Potter premiere.
Ok then, you keep having your ass rape dreams. Be sure to use bleach when you wash the sheets.
Whats that? Oh, no, it doesn't have anything to do with work.
Yes, it will have an adverse effect on the network performance but this web site I read claims it won't be all that bad.
Oh really? I should get the fuck back to work and quit fucking around with bullshit worthless personal stuff on company time or you'll fire the shit out of me?
Yes, thank you sir, back to work sir.
How about some more anime news you imbeciles. Ignorant geeks love that crap.
2) Did I buy an iBook? Maybe I did and I was drunk and don't remember, but I don't hate Apple.
3) I don't. You are thinking of cyborg_monkey.
4) I don't know what happened to him.
5) I'll have to go look through my posting history and see. I hadn't noticed until now.