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A nice sensible response, with some well-reasoned observations.

The thing about piracy I've always found weird is how hysterical some people get about it for their medium and not others. For example, I am good friends with several software developers who get furious about people pirating their products, but have no qualms about having gigs of copied music personally.



I think the rationale people are using here is that it's the record companies they're pirating from not the artists.

Artists like Janis Ian ( http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html (be sure to read the follow up)) have made that point quite eloquently.

Still, the basic position is one of hypocrisy, no contest there.


And EA and the other big game companies aren't just like them?

The people that I know that pirate the most music do so off independents more than mainstream.


> The people that I know that pirate the most music do so off independents more than mainstream.

That's really bad.




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