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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
However accusing anyone(read: me) of being mean to a disabled person because I believe you should wait to get a legitimate copy of the move/musical instead of obtaining a pirate version, is just wrong. there are other things to watch of better or worse merit than Wicked.
suggesting that anyone should have to produce one for you on demand is ridiculous. If you asked and they do thats a nice thing. If you ask and they dont, oh well. watch something else
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see thats what drives me nuts more than anything. not only is there a sense of entitlement but people are simply spoiled. the concept of simply going without is unheard of. its a world of toddlers stomping their feet crying "i want it now because i said so and i'm going to hold my breath until i get it!"
people can't see the forest for the trees. ok the one specific thing you'll "die" if you don't have right this second is unavailable......but what about the 50 zillion things that ARE available?
over the years there have been hundreds of movies, games, etc that have been unavailable in america or i simply couldn't afford. yea they would have been awesome to have but i shrugged and moved on with my life. i don't care enough about them to go out of my way to pirate them, theres plenty of other stuff available to me.
collectively we need to get a bleeping grip, take a deep breath and realize that we're acting like children over amusements. we're losing our minds over books or movies. if people had 1 iota of this outrage and offense where it counts i.e. the political process, we'd live in a very different world.
in the end i ended up buying this guys book. it was only $3 and he has a free novella available so one can sample his writing and his "universe". he doesn't have to give anything away but he did. his book is also drm free. he couldn't have made it any less painless for his customers.