05-05-2003, 07:55 PM
Quote:A better analogy is sneaking into an art gallery with an admission price. There is a disregaurd of social norms here and dishonesty, and depriving someone of potential profit that they may be entitled to, but the original artwork is left quite intact.
Inaccurate. Your comparison only indicates the benefit towards the single active participant, not the results of his actions. How do you apply your Art Gallery analogy to the ability to throw said "artwork" up for public grabs on a filesharing network?
Said someone would have to have the ability to duplicate the artwork. Not "copy" or "imitate"; Duplicate. It would retain its original form and texture, talent and ability. It would have to be a second existence of the same original piece: equally valuable, equally worthy, equally marketable.
Said someone would then walk outside of the Gallery, sit his criminal ass down and hang out a placard:
"Free Original Monets, Manets, Pollocks, Kandinskys. Renoir, Matisse and Mondrian on request. I don't do Whistler: Line forms to the right, 10 minute wait or less."
My morality is a tad less maleable than you're seeming to indicate is practical, Foxbat. Call it a "flaw".
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If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.