Comment Re:Splitting hairs.. (Score 1) 617
To my eyes, you appear to be lumping two arguments together, which are wholly separate. First, that pirating software is illegal. Second, that pirating software is "wrong."
Now, the first argument (for now, probably forever) is unequivocally true. The second argument cannot be referred to as a "fact" as you did in your post. Laws are arbitrary, software licenses are arbitrary, the fact that piracy hurts software creators is wholly unproven (and, if you understand the nature of such things, can never actually be proven 100%), and the wrongness of this particular act is far from an absolute law of nature.
I happen to believe that "pirating" software is not morally wrong, and does not necessarily hurt software creators and companies. This is somewhat besides the point as I find many people have been outlining my position quite well, and I wish not spend my day re-writing their arguments and being repetitive about it. I simply get annoyed when people entire the debate and state as an immutable fact that piracy is morally wrong, that all arguments to the contrary are just whiny complaints, and that we all will just have to accept that. I'm sorry, but just because something is a law, does not even come close to making it right, and I do not have to just accept it.
Now, the first argument (for now, probably forever) is unequivocally true. The second argument cannot be referred to as a "fact" as you did in your post. Laws are arbitrary, software licenses are arbitrary, the fact that piracy hurts software creators is wholly unproven (and, if you understand the nature of such things, can never actually be proven 100%), and the wrongness of this particular act is far from an absolute law of nature.
I happen to believe that "pirating" software is not morally wrong, and does not necessarily hurt software creators and companies. This is somewhat besides the point as I find many people have been outlining my position quite well, and I wish not spend my day re-writing their arguments and being repetitive about it. I simply get annoyed when people entire the debate and state as an immutable fact that piracy is morally wrong, that all arguments to the contrary are just whiny complaints, and that we all will just have to accept that. I'm sorry, but just because something is a law, does not even come close to making it right, and I do not have to just accept it.
