Am I the only one who will speak in support of piracy?
There's works produced in even the last ten years that are just *gone*, and older stuff is even worse. You can't buy them new, you can't buy them
used, you can't rent them and you probably can't borrow them either. It's as if they never existed at all.
A lot of really devoted pirates, from what I've seen, don't even watch/listen to/play/whatever half the stuff they download, they're just trying to
get as big a collection as possible. It's one of those e-peen things. But they provide an important service by maintaining a large network of redundant
backups of anything they can get. A work that's been pirated a healthy amount is much less likely to be wiped out by the passage of time.
If copyright laws were constructed more sensibly, I wouldn't support doing this illegally. But by the time copyrights expire under the current system,
it's far too late. So I must support the pirates, because they're helping a good cause whether they think so or not.
-Morgan.
There's works produced in even the last ten years that are just *gone*, and older stuff is even worse. You can't buy them new, you can't buy them
used, you can't rent them and you probably can't borrow them either. It's as if they never existed at all.
A lot of really devoted pirates, from what I've seen, don't even watch/listen to/play/whatever half the stuff they download, they're just trying to
get as big a collection as possible. It's one of those e-peen things. But they provide an important service by maintaining a large network of redundant
backups of anything they can get. A work that's been pirated a healthy amount is much less likely to be wiped out by the passage of time.
If copyright laws were constructed more sensibly, I wouldn't support doing this illegally. But by the time copyrights expire under the current system,
it's far too late. So I must support the pirates, because they're helping a good cause whether they think so or not.
-Morgan.