wow.
show me the bit where anyone, let alone me suggested chopping the hands off of illegal downloaders.

Good luck

why not though?
I've bought every album dream theater has made, and I know full well I could torrent them instead.
Why should I give a fuck if they prosecute someone for taking for free what I handed over hard earned money for?
If I support the band enough to buy their stuff, why should I acre about people trying to rip the band off?

Are you not fussed if everyone in your town cheats on their income tax?

Its pretty clear your morality includes letting you help yourself to other peoples work whilst honest people enable you to do so, so to be honest, I think any claim you have to possessing a sense of morality is fucking delusional.

God help the next generation when they are forced to work for a living. Do you expect other people to do that for you too?

Maybe you should try actually paying for stuff you want?
just an idea.
Don't expect everyone else in society to be happy to subsidise your lifestyle. What makes you think you are entitled to stuff for free that honest people are paying for?

Tragic.

And its my opinion that someone who people who repeatedly, knowingly, constantly take other peoples hard work for free, again and again and again,with zero intention of ever paying for it, or giving a shit about the effects of what they do, deserve what they get.
pure and simple.

The libdems support freedom of speech and controls over the police. They don't support "give us TEH FREEEEE music!!!" like the pirate party does.
I wonder who has more members?

The pirate party is for kids who have yet to have a real job and learn the value of work. Anyone older than 15 who supports them is going through severe moral and mental gymnastics to justify their bit-torrent queue.

so next time you get made redundant because your employer couldn't sell any products due to people helping themselves to them, I'm sure you will just smile and say

"its fair enough, money isn't important"

if you really believe that, North Korea will welcome you with open arms. Funny how communism never really took off as an economic success isn't it?

the majority of people in the UK are concerned about the economy, the environment, antisocial behaviour, crime and international issues such as the war in Afghanistan, which has now claimed 200 lives.
Defending the right of teenagers to help themselves to free music is not, nor should it be, the prime factor that motivates any sane individual to make their one democratic choice every five years.

"What ever happened to the notion that money is not valuable in and of itself, but only as a means to the ends we choose?"

explain to my landlord why money isn't important, and ill be happy to reverse my position on copyright.
People who make a living from creating digitally encodable products actually have the same bills to pay as everyone else.

I'm a technically literate brit, but amazingly, its my opinion that people who are serial downloaders of copyrighted material are
a) breaking the law
b) free loading off honest people who pay for stuff and thus enable it to get made in the first place.

I frankly don't give a fuck if people who are caught illegally downloading copyrighted material are caught, identified and prosecuted, just as I don't give a fuck if people who break the speed limit or get caught driving without insurance get prosecuted for that.

What next? having speed cameras or letting the police check your insurance details at random is 'an invasion of privacy!!!'

Nothing is more insulting that equating being technically literate with 'defending the anonymity of internet pirates'.
What is this? digg? torrentfreak? or 'newsforpirates'?

if your address is west wallaby street, the brick would probably revolve and then go down 100 feet on pistons and deposit the key in a thunderbirds-style underground chamber beneath the swimming pool.

A fantastic post, I couldn't agree more, but sadly it shows the mentality of the kids here that you arent even modded up :(

hahaha the little kiddies have modded me troll. It must be so sad to be unable to bare to even read stuff you don't agree with eh kiddies?
Now tidy your rooms.

if the hitman went to court and stood there and admitted it, then yup, I think he should be found guilty. don't you?

No it isn't. I work in the free market. Nobody prevents me making games, selling them, promoting them, advertising them, changing my business model or charging any amount in any currency.
Explain to em why the free market I work in and sue every day of my life is somehow a 'fiction'?

There are places where the free market doesn't work and is abused. music, Movies and games are not one of them, although the anti-copyright zealots like to kid themselves that it is, so they can justify theft.