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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Who's weaseling? You're the one using sematics trying to justify not paying for a service done to you. So, before you start insulting people, you might want to figure out how taking something you didn't pay for puts you on the moral high ground.
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I fully agree with you calling out people who aren't willing to take full responsibility for stealing content, but as somebody who really has something to lose/gain from adapting or not adapting to the realities of piracy, I encourage you to pay careful attention to me and the other people who are explaining the mentality of piracy and the ways its damages can be minimized, or even exploited to entice a new group of paying users.
You have solid morals and a legitimate complaint, but neither of these is going to help your bottom line. The more you plan on your profits only coming from that group of people who will always stay on the up-and-up, the more money you are going to lose by not courting the middle ground people who pirate content but are also willing to pay for it if given the right impetus.