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Originally Posted by HarryT
You seem to be confusing "cause" and "effect" here. There would be no need for more draconian laws and monitoring if these people whom you side with weren't illegally downloading stuff.
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I am not confusing cause and effect, nor does my post suggest any such confusion. I'm merely stating that I don't think the "cause" (piracy) results in sufficient harm to justify the "effect" (draconian laws and monitoring). I agree something illegal is happening and that's bad, but I disagree with any solution that basically amounts to swinging a sledgehammer around in a crowded room to squash a fly.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Spoken like a guy whose work can't be pirated-yet! 
If the product of NL's labor could be distributed free on the Internet, thus costing him income, he would not have this wise and understanding attitude about piracy. |
Some of my labour is in fact distributed for free on the internet. Lengthy agreements and documents that I've drafted are available online for free on SEDAR, as are legal memos abd court documents that I've written. I have no doubt that others have benefited from my research and have never credited me or provided any money to me.
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Originally Posted by nogle
I think you will find that the majority are not defending piracy, and even don't care about nor use the pirate bay. But they have questions about the process used to block access and upon examining the logical extension of the process used, worry about what else could happen.
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This, a thousand times this. Some can't separate the process from the result; if The Pirate Bay is bad, then anything you do to stop it must be okay because stopping it is okay. If you disagree with the process, then somehow you must be supporting piracy generally.