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Originally Posted by bowerbird
of course i was. but some people see a criminal behind every corner.
it's an interesting rorschach-blot that tells you a lot about those people.
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Perhaps, bowerbird, you have not shared my experience of seeing something which you've spent 20 years of your life creating, and are trying your damndest to make an honest living from selling, casually being posted to internet news groups, duplicated and sold on eBay, etc. I'm afraid that the experience does rather tend to make one cynical when it comes to the "morals" of many people out there. If I see criminal intent lurking behind every post, it's because my own experience has shown me that there are many such people out there.
Luckily, one has the occasional triumph. I've recently successfully prosecuted a joker who was selling my software on eBay through the English civil courts, and last year got a kid expelled from university in Thailand for attempting (ineptly) to do the same thing. Sadly, these minor "triumphs" are eclipsed by those who succeed in profiting from other peoples' hard work unpunished.
Perhaps you understand now why I am loath piracy so very much. One's attitudes are inevitably coloured by one's own experiences. If one has been personally hurt by piracy, as I have, the result is inevitably a rather extreme aversion to it in all its forms.