BassDriver
Silver Member
It's like arguing: it's bad because it's illegal because it's bad.
...I'll put something forward...
The ruling elites in Europe about the time of the creation of the printing press were keeping the lower-class uneducated and stupid so that they may obey, the invention of the printing press threatened their position. Books such as the bible were copied and printed on the new printing presses (previously, the books were written by hand by train expert scribes), books that were especially illegal to be printed were the booklist of the the new press operators...
...basically back then the printer operators were the pirates of their day, they were told not to copy the books, the rulers said it that way...(quoteth) "It's bad because it is illegal because it is bad"...the printing could not be stopped.
...this helped the spread of new ideas, literacy, and basically elvolved society from the old feudal system with a king at the top, nobles somewhere in the middle and peasants at the bottom...culture evolved.
This isn't much different, except now a much larger percentage of people in the world can read and write and have to be controlled with much more defined law...
Piracy - as long as their is media to rip, burn and share - cannot be stopped, the entities that are bigger than we can imagine are on the backfoot, the truly weak ones, the ones that hide behind expensive lawyers, deep pockets, and tiny intricacies in law, they are the enemy of a generation of copyright infringers...
...and in the nature of a manifesto....
...PIRATES OF THE WORLD...UNITE!
...yes I love excercising my right to freedom of speech!