I am assuming people know that there are many bit torrent sites besides demonoid...here are some:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client
when it rains it........TORRENTS.....
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Originally Posted by bingle
But that's my point. We are in a world of genies giving us stuff for free. The genie's name was Demonoid. You asked it for a copy of a CD, movie, or software, and it gave it to you. And everyone else on earth still had their copies of it, too!
This obviously isn't a literal genie with magic smoke and a lantern, but I think the analogy holds perfectly. And I think that this analogy lends us a good viewpoint to discuss why people don't strongly feel that downloading is wrong.
But if you can see a hole in the analogy, please point it out.
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