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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Wagging your finger like that doesn't help the argument, makes you look like a reactionary old fart, and a hypocrite to boot. Unless you are that one guy that has never touched a piece of pirated media in any format in his life.
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I make no claims never to have touched a piece of pirated media. What I do very firmly state is that I would never download a book that I hadn't bought a paper version of because, in my personal code of ethics, it would be wrong to do so - if you read a book, you should pay the author. There's nothing hypocritical in taking a moral stance on the matter, and nor does taking such a stance make one an "old fart" unless you are suggesting that today's younger generation has no morals - something which I'd be very loath to believe.