Ingolfke's Journal: Shouting matches are cute

Well, my post, which I just wrote about was -1 trolled. This is an appropriate response, but it's amusing to me how inconsistant we are in are advocacy. We'll support FOSS and wage a giant virtual flame war against, or mod down, anyone who dares to question its goodness or proposes violating the license agreements, but we'll quickly support copyright infringement in small or large part. This is hypocrasy; plain and simple. It makes a case for arguing that the underlying motive behind most of the arguments for sharing copyrighted materials without permission and outside the bounds of the law is simply that "I want too, and no one can stop me." It's greed and selfishness wrapped in a mantel of self-righteous david-vs-goliathism, sprinkled with FUD about DRM, big corporations, and how government does exactly what the money tells them to.