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Re:Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it by jiggy2011 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:15AM (#3484521)
Playing "happy birthday to you" in public might be a legit act of civil disobedience .

Pirating last weeks blockbuster isn't.

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Re:Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it by bitmonk on Thursday January 19, 2012 @01:17PM (#3485772)
That's an opinion. Stating opinion as fact is a worthless contribution, in fact a detriment, to healthy discussion.

I wouldn't argue that there's moral high ground here, I'd simply put it this way:

  Anyone who thinks there is a better way to keep people from pirating music than to make the legal means of acquisition simple, affordable, and to not play games with release dates, is a fucking idiot.
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Re:Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:39AM (#3489143)
What's your point? I should prefix every sentence with "I think", people here are smart enough to put things in context.

Legal means of acquiring music is pretty simple. Legal DRM Free MP3 downloads are built into my music player and I'm a linux user.

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