kingfisher, I don't think pirates are heroes. I think most of them are entitled and immature. But I also don't think they're evil, and while what they're doing is often against the law (it isn't always and everywhere), I don't think they are particularly evil either. Just... spoiled, entitled brats, basically.
When the big corps decide to respond by being actively and maliciously evil, even if it's technically legal, that's worse. It's even worse when it's only technically legal
because they corrupted the law to allow them to do something that SHOULD be illegal. If anyone is to blame for making pirates look like heroes, it's the companies that use them as an excuse to fuck us all over.
cheating the system, not caring about who gets disadvantaged.
is essentially the MO of
every single person on every side of the issue. When everyone is the bad guy, I'm not going to root for anyone, but I'm certainly going to hope that the more dangerous, more actively immoral party fails regardless. Especially since evidence indicates that every single one of these big corporations and the groups they pull together to "fight the evils of piracy"
actively pirate other's works themselves.
So here's the question to you: Yes, pirates are bad. But why should I care? Entitled people aren't going to go away, and the damage they do is minimal. I'm much more inclined to fight against the actual threats to both effective government and sensible, who actually pose a real risk to myself and those I care about and the country I care about, and if that means I end up allying with a bunch of entitled brats, well, I'm willing to do that. I
don't care if they're only supporting the right things for completely selfish reasons, if they end up supporting the right things I'm going to support them in turn until they stop. So groups like the various Pirate Parties effectively have my vote locked in. So, again...
why should I care about pirates or piracy?I mean, come on, most of the people producing the work have proven themselves time and time again just as entitled and immoral as the pirates, if not more so, and they
are willing to actively make my life worse to justify their entitlement. Do you really want to side with those people any more than you want to side with the pirates?
So they'll download a large file that deletes itself when interrupted!
What... what does this mean? What are you talking about?