But Copyright infrengment is still wrong, isn’t it?
Ahahahahaha, why? Why on Earth do you think this has a simple, black and white answer?
Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. Usually it isn’t - certainly not when you’re looking at the cases that shape policy and have people crying bitter tears before congress. Usually the people who are screaming bloody murder about theft have no role in the creation of the work being ‘infringed,’ pay the original creators next to nothing, and have a long history of profiting (not simply enjoying, but profiting) from infringement themselves. Fuck them. You want me to feel bad and sad if I draw mickey mouse without paying Disney’s rotting corpse a nickel? Fuck you!
Frequently, intellectual property is downright immoral. You think it’s wrong to take a patented, lifesaving drug and make it cheap without paying some pharmaceutical company a dime? You think pfizer isn’t laughing at you when you tell people that if they can’t profit from their drugs, they can’t research any new ones?
You hurt far more people buying lunch than you do by copying and enjoying media without paying for it. Maybe copyright infringement is wrong. Maybe I just farted.
Once more, I never said I support ACTA and think that it’s way of going about controlling the internet is good.
Great, have a cookie. At no point has anyone said otherwise, the contention is that the things you do believe and have espoused are incorrect and foolish.
Don’t misread me and become determined that I’m a ‘fucking idiot’.
You said, very clearly, that copyright infringement is theft and that we, as world consumers, ‘share some blame’ for industry attempts to enforce their bottom line. Those are things that the industry would like people to believe, because they think you are all fucking idiots. You have misread me. I asked, are you a fucking idiot?
(Source: 3liza)
Don’t worry, people are still confusing “signed” with “ratified”.
Um. But Poland hasn’t ratified it O__o
It was ratified in Poland last night. This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of...