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Dusty Bottoms · 05-19-2010, 12:10 PM

This whole argument smacks of the same 'Devil's Music' accusations that came about when Rock n' Roll started, or the same 'Death of Music' arguments that surrounded punk. The cool kids, the 'Fonz' in all of this is Piracy. And the anti-piracy, pro-DRM, pro-copyright types are 'Richie Cunningham' (visual aid below). Go to any place where the demographic is under-20, like Reddit or Digg, instead of the +20 we have here and the attitudes are entirely one-sided in favour of piracy (what we call 'sharing'). so if you're pro-corporation, pro-copyright, pro-DRM, anti-sharing your views are pretty much redundant when it comes to the longview. And that's why this argument is so silly. You anti-sharing people will lose, you have lost already. Everything else is just the dying whimpers of dinosaurs who can't, and refuse to understand the comets hurtling through the sky.

05-19-2010, 12:10 PM	#112
Dusty Bottoms Banned Posts: 187 Karma: 8178 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: None	This whole argument smacks of the same 'Devil's Music' accusations that came about when Rock n' Roll started, or the same 'Death of Music' arguments that surrounded punk. The cool kids, the 'Fonz' in all of this is Piracy. And the anti-piracy, pro-DRM, pro-copyright types are 'Richie Cunningham' (visual aid below). Go to any place where the demographic is under-20, like Reddit or Digg, instead of the +20 we have here and the attitudes are entirely one-sided in favour of piracy (what we call 'sharing'). so if you're pro-corporation, pro-copyright, pro-DRM, anti-sharing your views are pretty much redundant when it comes to the longview. And that's why this argument is so silly. You anti-sharing people will lose, you have lost already. Everything else is just the dying whimpers of dinosaurs who can't, and refuse to understand the comets hurtling through the sky. Last edited by Dusty Bottoms; 05-19-2010 at 12:13 PM.