Quote Originally Posted by mrcape View Post


What red state are you posting from? I guess we see the issues very differently.

What do you guys think will happen to megaupload, rapidshare, isohunt and the never ending list of new services that will continue to sprout up?
Do you believe that people should not have the right to receive compensation for their work in a fair market? Or is that somehow a "red state" idea? How is free a fair market? There is no business plan that competes with free other than begging for donations. You don't finance multi-million dollar movies, games or software titles on donation models. People will claim you can, but you can't. You either have revenues you can count on, or you don't have employees over the time between titles.

People today feel they are entitled to every last thing that can be put in digital format, movies, books, software, music. Everything is theirs for the taking because they have grown used to it. They have a litany of excuses and arguments including the corporations are evil, RIAA is evil, information should be free, movies are too expensive, games suck or are too expensive, music quality sucks, it's only to "try it out", etc. etc. etc. Always the excuses, always the reasons to get the free stuff. But in the end, that's all that matters. Free stuff fast and easy without retribution or any real effort at all. It's an entitlement. Free stuff Über Alles, get it while you can. That's all it is. Anything else is smoke and mirrors.