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Originally Posted by Moejoe
What really amazes me is that anybody would pay for anything at all nowadays. I mean, I can only imagine that people are paying now out of some antiquated sense of honour; or misguided belief that it actually means a damn thing to the creators. It's not like the artists see even %10 of that money you give. It's not like you're supporting anything good when you buy products from a big publishing house.
Seriously, if the people harping on about piracy gave ten damns about the actual creators, we'd all be living in a better world.
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The best description of this is in the book (no e-book) of
The Rational Individual by John Davidson and Lord Rees-Moog. They describe the mind-set changes at the end of chivalry at the beginning of the book (and the reasons for it). They are fully relevant to the changes in I.P. today.