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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by aasasd on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:10AM (#28388855)
First of all, it doesn't follow in any way from my comment that I'm ‘advocating for’ that argument. You just extrapolated somehow onto the stock set of anti-copyright arguments and decided that I'm opposed to one of them.

Actually, I'm sorta happy that such kinds of blatant strawmanning and anti-copyright crowd being generally pretty obnoxious led to me thinking these things over for myself, instead of just accepting everything that gets passed around again and again. So I guess thanks for that.

Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by burnished on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:59AM (#28393704)
Oh! I'm sorry for offending you. We started with such sarcasm that I didn't think you'd feel the prick.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by aasasd on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:17PM (#28396153)
Sarcasm I don't mind—gotta eat my own food, obviously. However, shifting the discussion is a different matter, while I was replying to one specific claim. On top of that, the arguments about material harm, that you've mentioned, are utterly worn-out go-to points of the anti-copyright folks. I do have my opinion on whether they make much sense and are worth repeating in each discussion on piracy, but that's another topic.
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by burnished on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:57PM (#28396617)
I see. I'm not usually involved in conversations on this topic so I'm not really aware of whats considered an argument that is no longer valid from over-use.

I don't think it was shifting the discussion either. You made a sort of sarcastic remark about getting stabbed, I brought the focus back on going to jail over the topic at hand.