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Originally Posted by sbroome
As an artist/writer who's also been a freelance web designer for years, I can tell you the one thing that's consistent: people feel art and writing are "FUN" for the creator, and thus not that big of a deal. I mean if the end result is entertaining in any way, it must have been entertaining to create, so what's the big deal?
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This doesn't happen only to artists/writers. The people who enjoy their work more usually get handed more things to do, with the colleagues and bosses giving the impression that they did the coworker/employee a favor. It's also true for those who work better or faster. And the result is that they get payed less for the amount of work.
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Originally Posted by sbroome
Megaupload was hosting pirated material (should note, I used it as an FTP replacement for exchanging files with clients who were not tech-savvy enough to use FTPs, so I was kind of shocked to learn it had an illegal side), got taken down, and Anonymous responded with a hacking attack. What did you see the public reaction to be? I saw a lot of either indifference or support for Anonymous, which is amazing to me because just a couple days earlier I saw everyone talking about google's "end piracy, not libery" petition. So did the public celebrate something being done to end piracy, or was it just lip service? And almost everyone who talked about it said "I used it to watch movies" or something to that effect.
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From what I've read on the internet it was mostly "I used it to watch porn". I don't see why you would expect the people who used it to start cheering that it was taken down, and most of those who didn't use it probably didn't know that it existed.