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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Actually... yes, this is just the place for that type of discussion.
From Haley's reply to a commenter:
This.
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That particular Spanish writer is not the best example to bring up.
Her reputation is somewhat dubious when it comes to artistic merit and money-grubbing. And her gripe wasn't the piracy per-se; it was that the revenue wasn't up to her *expectations*. (There's entitlement and there is entitlement.)
Mind you, I think the online entitlement culture *is* ripe for slapping down: note how the Megauploads crew were instantly sanctified when the news broke? Only later did anybody bother to take note that they were real-life gun-toting thugs and gangsters. And they still have defenders.
Similarly, the big corporate types need to be called on their whining and hypocrisy.
But life is c-o-m-p-l-i-c-a-t-e-d and two wrongs don't add up to a right (in any definition of the word.
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Wanting does not imply getting, much less deserving.
So slap away.
