Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
My memory of that thread is replying to you and not getting a response?

The point is that IP is not normally for something you came up with one evening when you were baked; IP can cost millions of pounds to produce, and take up years of a dedicated individual's life. If you copied the idea for your private use and used private materials and resources to realise it then I suppose you are free to do that, but the idea that you can steal an idea that somebody has dedicated so much to develop and mass produce it and sell it for your own selfish interests is utterly horrid, both ethically, and pragmatically; how on Earth do you think new products will ever be created? And yes it is deprivation, it's deprivation of the value of the resources and labour one puts into the idea; that is what you are stealing.

How exactly do you think the media industry is going to work if what matters is not the cost of development but the cost of copying? Somebody puts millions into a film and you're saying it's your right to copy the DVD and sell it to the public if you bought the blank DVDs??

What do you mean by the seeds of civilisation? My guess is that you are conflating the discovery of truth and nature (what scientific research does, for instance, and what no company has the rights to), with the creation of nature.

Also, do you believe in taxation?
Okay, we're going to need to make a distinction between the type of pirates.

Pirates that copy IP and sell it for profit = bad.

Pirates that copy IP and distribute it for the spread of information and culture NOT for monetary gain = fuck yeah.

The owners of said IP have the right to sell it no doubt. But copyright laws today really restrict the way that same IP can be shared and enjoyed by the masses.