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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Easy to say... yet history is replete with examples of industries that found ways to secure their products and property... or they stopped producing, went out of business, and nobody got anything. The views of the young are the typically-short-sighted views of those who don't really know their history, don't really know society, and have no conception of the Long View.
Where's the Fonz today?
The actor who played the character has parlayed his popularity into producing, and making money hand over fist from TV and movie residuals. That's the Long View.
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The Fonz is nowhere today, he was a character in a TV show (Although he's still cool in my book). Henry Winkler on the other hand, as you pointed out, is a successful comedy actor, producer and director, and quite a distinct character from any of his Fonz appearances (Arrested Development.)
Still doesn't blunt my point. Filesharing is cool. It's growing in popularity and has 'legs' beyond what you or anyone else would want. No argument will stop that and no amount of gnashing of teeth and wishing things were different will change the inexorable push toward 'free'.
Adapt or die. Simple.