Eyesore wrote:Goat wrote:All in all, this rants are not addressed to "you the downloader" but to "you the supporter of downloading". You, who will buy the album, are sheltering those who will not, that's the negative. You and them are the same community. You keeping your head high is ok, feeling no shame is ok, but turning a blind eye and distancing yourself from the rest while giving them silent moral support is not ok.
I am not giving anyone support. I'll say it again, I'm in Walmart shopping, I get thirsty and I have a lot more shopping to do. So I go up to the front a grab a soda from the cooler. I continue shopping and I drink some of the soda, maybe even all of it. I then finish shopping and go up front to pay, I put that empty bottle on the belt and have them ring it up and I pay for it. Am I a thief? Am I a supporter of thieves? Am I in the same community as thieves? Absolutely NOT!
This is no different.
But Walmart hasn't put that soda in the cooler. Someone else did and Walmart hasn't got the price tag on it yet. You drank it already and you can't pay for it because they can't charge you. So you get to go home and come back a month later to pay. Again your conscience is clean but something is wrong nonetheless.
I wonder if we'll manage to keep this on until Jan 27th.
Btw, I never called anyone a thief. For me downloaders are not thieves, just pragmatic opportunists. Some have conscience (like you), some don't and are fucking artists over. With "everyone doing it" you support each other but are NOT responsible for other's actions. It's a great loophole, everyone just does it and that is it.
I think the ones who do it shouldn't post here on the official forum. Synchestra discussion should be locked the moment the first leak showed up.
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