You dirty pirate you...

[dar512]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Argh. First of all it's not theft. Using theft quite simply implies you don't see the fundamental shift that has occurred. Music, movies, books, all are information and exist at one point or another in digital form, increasingly so. You can replicate digital data as many times as you want for no cost and no loss of quality. Despite this the media industry thinks it can continue to screw people as hard as it wants and charge the same amount it did for cds formed quality lossy files. The situation has changed, what you are seeing is market forces at work. Once the hand wringing about the sky collapsing stops you'll see prices drop and a new price-point established that is workable. Theft is when I take your lawnmower.

Bogus. Bogus. Bogus. From any random twit on the net, I might accept that as a point of view. But I know you're not stupid, Jag. You must surely understand the concept of intellectual property and you must also know that the cost of most IP is not in the duplication but in the initial development.

Yes. There has been a fundamental shift. It is now quite easy to steal intellectual property. The only thing that stops one is their morals.