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Originally Posted by HansTWN
But anyway, most filesharers fit quite a different profile. Not exactly people of "every age, race, creed, and economic class".
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I have been pirating software, video, music, and now books for close to 20 years now-- back to when "pirating software" meant exchanging 5 1/2 floppy discs, "pirating music" involved a cassette tape, and "pirating movies" involved 2 VCRs hooked together and a rental tape. I have never met in the "real world" anyone not completely happy to accept free software, free movies, free songs, or free books when you offer it to them. (One of them was a biblical literalist Southern Baptist pastor who not only accepted cracked databases of bible translations I provided but also had an odd obsession with the movie Titanic and gleefully accepted a VCD copy while the movie was still in the theaters.) You are kidding yourself if you don't think millions upon millions upon millions of people are doing it. It is only on the internet that I meet the rare individual who turns up their nose on free stuff.