But not the upside down part of the Southern Hemisphere.

Hey whatever logic helps you sleep at night. I never expected to change the mind of pirates. I just like poking fun at their logic that helps them think what they are doing is okay. It is wrong despite whatever metal exercise you use to try to convince others otherwise and that is why we have laws for that. And unlike…

Sure it is. You are depriving money from a developer when you take their games and fail to pay them for their work. And the fact that you can do it over and over makes it even worse. You are just using poor reasoning to think that what you are doing is not depriving them of anything. I used to think like you but then…

Exactly. That's why I used that example. You still have to pay for the internet and devices to use the digital media, but you stiff the people who do the hard work to make the media. Even though you paid money to other people, Bob was not compensated in anyway for his work. Thank you for helping me prove my point.

Folks are just going to use the argument that you are physically depriving Bob of a physical good, unlike digital media, which is just data. Actually if you want to be like a pirate, you should hire farmer Bob to come to your house, give him materials to make you a tiny garden, and then don’t pay him a thing. At this…

I like strawberry milkshakes, but I don’t have green thumb, and can’t grow my own strawberries. Plus I live in tiny apartment with no garden. My local farmer doesn’t run a fruit stand, and only sells his strawberries direct to Dole. And the grocery store is 40 miles away where I could actually buy them, but only after…

We have long been advocate of freedom and are against censorship. These beliefs motivated us to rebuild KAT

Oh, the horror. My god. A year, even! You can’t be expected to wait months (or over a year even) for completely unnecessary entertainment. I mean, what would you do with your time while you’re waiting?

“If you absolutely have to get movies and books for free, make sure you’re doing it responsibly”

While unfortunate, the excuse of “but I want it now” doesn’t make being a pirate okay.

So you will only pay for something if the people selling it deliver it EXACTLY the way you want it, else you will steal it. Got it.

If they were never willing to buy it then that means they didn’t want it and they would have never downloaded it for free in the first place. Yet they went through the trouble and risk of downloading it, so that means they wanted it and that is a lost sale. Sure you can argue that people don’t have enough money but if…

It is the same effect. I know people who just buy books to collect them. They never read them. Still sales lost. Also the reason if it wasn’t free there would never have been a sale in the first place doesn't work. If that was true then they would have never downloaded the book for free in the first place either. If…

I love your type of argument. Morals have no place when it comes to the consumption of entertainment and you have no problem with that at all. As long as you can reason companies are the problem themselves, you sleep just fine at night. At least you are upfront about it and honest.

JUST PAY FOR THE CONTENT. I work in publishing. If you download a book off of a torrent then you are taking money away from me. But you are also taking money away from the author of that book who is not seeing those royalties because of illegal downloads.

Growing up, Paterno was God in my house. We didn’t go to church.

I did what everyone told me to, which was: go to a community college on scholarships for my first two years and then switch to a state school with “affordable” tuition. My parents had a little money saved to help me, which I spent on my community college tuition and, with working throughout the year, was able to get…

I think you’re right - the bracket that (in my view) seems to get shafted the hardest is always the working poor. Those with a family income in the $50-$60k range are struggling and (what I don’t think is credited enough) are TRYING to improve their situation.

bullshit “parental contribution” amount

Shit, I wish I had known your wife when I was going to school. I fit that exact same profile, but payed through the fucking nose because the colleges kept accounting for a bullshit “parental contribution” amount that on its face was exorbitant—and that didn’t even account for the fact that my mother was dead broke and…