[Mr. Bungle]

Thank you, tdadams, for being almost a lone voice of reason in this discussion. It saddens me, in the truest sense, to see so many fellow Freepers relentlessly determined to put me on welfare. Thanks for not being one of them.

I've all but given up trying to argue any more on these threads. I can beat every pro-piracy argument, every time, yet be virtually ignored - accused of "greed" or another such horrors. I can plead, I can argue the economics. It just doesn't seem to matter - the avarice, the unyeilding compulsion for free stuff at the exclusion of basic principle is simply staggering. Especially here. It's one of a few reasons I post a lot less here than I used to. A thread like this exposes a very ugly side of professed "principled" Americans I'd rather not see. Especially when that side directly sanctions actions that make me poorer. From my perspective, with my work, I cannot honestly view these Freepers any different than the socialists they themselves claim to struggle against. And being a former socialist - the arguments I see from them are eerily familiar. And because I know where they lead, it depresses me.

To anyone who, on this thread, advocates stealing of creations like those I feed myself from creating, I offer this:

You are the very thing you claim to oppose.

[bvw]

This is a sort of tautological statement, or invert. Anyway, it only means you've convinced yourself but not others.

I've all but given up trying to argue any more on these threads. I can beat every pro-piracy argument, every time

In some way this is a toe to toe battle. Would you have, come brain implants, that every time I remember your song that some electronic transfer makes my account poorer and your own richer? If so we are to fight, and strength, not logic will win out.