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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Unfortunately, anyone who tries to defend their material is automatically labeled a Godless monster in the digital space.
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I'll have a go at explaining why that is the case, but in order to understand it you are going to have to suspend your disbelief a bit and just take my word for a few things.
People put works by unknown creators on the internet because they think they deserve to be more widely known. Rightly or wrongly (and I'm not really interested in debating which of those it is), they believe they are helping the unknown creator by doing so. It's basically a way of saying hey look at this great creator I've discovered, I bet you'd like it too.
So when said unknown creator calls those people thieves, mind-rapists, income murderers or whatever, they get a bit upset about it. Hey, I'm helping this person become better known and look at the thanks I get. So they tell all their online friends what a jerk you are, their friends tell others, and eventually one of the pro-piracy news sites gets to hear about it and it goes global.
Once that happens every crazy on the internet wants to teach you a lesson.