Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion
Guess what?
I don't care if the RIAA is robbing bands/songwriters. I don't care if the RIAA is making (or not making) a fortune off musicians. I don't care how much profit musicians get or how much the RIAA gets.
Fact: If you download a song/album instead of buying it, you are cheating SOMEONE out of due profits/income. It really doesn't matter how much damage you are doing. You are doing damage.
This sounds like the same kind of person/people who think..."stealing a candy bar from WalMart is OK but it's wrong to steal a candy bar from a small "mom and pop" store."
The bottom line is this: If you take something that is for sale from someone without paying, you are a thief...I don't care if it is Micro$oft or the RIAA (and the artists that they compensate).
In my opinion, people who steal (whatever) and justify it by some stupid reason are just a nicer form of thief who want to make it easier to sleep at night.
Take if from a guy who returned over $200 in a mistake to a business. Sleeping is much easier without having to manufacture ridiculous justifications for theft.
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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce)
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