Wow DarkKnight is a scary scary guy!  Thank goodness there are other rational individuals out there to counter his inane ramblings!

Please refrain from speaking for Stardock.  They're fine, thanks. 

First of all, I'm 29, lifted weights since I was 18. If you came with a bat you'd get your brains beaten out.

Lets not even get into the fact that you'd be breaking and entering, and threatening my life, and my states law allows me to kill a person breaking and entering with the gun I have legally.

You are obviously the defition of a kid. Think you can go around taking what you want? People like these are the reason I own a gun.

With that said, it's a joke your even saying what your saying. You kids are calling me irrational while your crying a river of tears.

As an aside . . if we can keep the name-calling and personal attacks to a minimum this is an interesting discussion and one that should be important to anyone using the internet.

Let's all just be cool, speak for ourselves, and bring what facts we can.

Carry on.

100% with ya "TheDarkKnight2008"

omfg... gotta love when thieves get their panties in a bunch because someone calls them a thief. Some people might get a vacation from the forums for being such naughty muppets... threatening someone with real life violence because they call it as it is.

Sign me up for death threats too for saying piracy is a no-no. PM me your IP with the threat too so my friends in blue uniforms can take you away to where your "software" will be pirated and redistributed repeatedly.

If there was no piracy, there would be no business for the DRM / copyprotection companies.. Think about that.. It wont be a global law, ever. They'll see to it that it wont. Money rules the world.
Secondly, if everyone that ever downloaded an mp3 will be banned from the internet, they would also cancel their ISP accounts (why pay if you cant surf?), again lots and LOTS of money lost for the ISP companies. The % of ISP traffic that is NOT from downloaded stuff, is minimalistic.

In short, it wont ever happen. Both the ISP's and the copyprotection companies will see to it, it would result in huge financial losses.
It would be like trying to sell fuel when cars have been banned.

And dont try to use my own arguement against me, saying something like "But oh! the music industry is loosing SO MUCH $$ due to piracy!".
Then why is Justin Timberlake one of the richest men in the world? Or Britney Spears? Or 50 Cent? The list of bad music that sells like butter keeps growing larger.
Why do almost every new blockbuster hollywood movie keep breaking records in revenue in the first day, or week? Yet we are being told the opposite.
That arguement has no shred of reality.

Wait, I get threatened by members, Zubaz emails me saying I'm abusing other members, and says my status will be moved to visitor?

If any of these member do attack me, I will be suing.

Zubaz... how about "banning/setting them as visitor" the ones doing the threatening, isn't that against the forum rules?

Uhm DarkKnight I think you need to read what you typed, because if i read correctly you were calling names as well, calling pirates assholes.  Now you may think that the intelectual property thing is black and white, but not all people do.  Not to mention just because something is law doesn't make it right, do we need an education on laws that are repealed because they are found to be wrong/excessive?  What I find irrational about you is you refuse to see or listen to anything that doesn't agree with your narrow view!

This is the only way you'll change anything. The current laws put people who abuse the law in prison.

The only way to change this law would be years of arguing fair use for IP to a judge.

Wow DarkKnight your ignorance and close mindedness are mind numbing! 

First I want to say I never said I pirated anything, what I did say is that I think copyright/intellectual property laws have issues and need to be fixed. 

Second I am sure as hell glad our founding fathers and great individuals like Rosa Parks didn't just lay down and be a doormat in the face of terrible laws, because they refused our country and everyone’s lives are better for it. 

Now I am not equating pirating to those two things just letting you know that breaking the law is sometimes the only way to get it fixed period! 

As for putting people in jail for pirating, that is the last thing we want to do.  I suppose you want every pothead placed in jail also?  Here in America we already incarcerate more people than any other nation and that is for other idiotic things like piracy.  How about we look at why there is piracy and work on fixing those issues?  If that takes the IP owners shouldering some responsibility and not litigating their own customers so be it.  I think a lot of IP owners could learn a lot from companies like Stardock.

While it must be interesting for you to live in that black and white world of yours the rest of us live in a world where things aren’t so simple.  I hope one day you will learn to deal with that, for everyone’s sake.

 

Your a twelve year old fat kind for starters. 2nd Stardock does not have the same views that you have. 3rd You ramble about laws and justice not enough to punish the so called bad guys. 4th Corporation are controlling the goverment not the goverment. 5th They blame pirates for every cent they lost because of their shitty product. 6th some don't make demos because they want to earn as much as possible. 7th You are using a pirated version of Windows . 8th how many years did piracy exist??? Learn your math Mr. Programmer. 9th You are a Sadist and a Masochist. 10th Pirates will think of other ways to spread files other than BT which already exist.