from my perspective as a consumer, the publisher, the artist, and the vendor blur into one entity. and well, duh, of course you shouldn't rip people's work off and post it for free. but the overall effect is that the effort to stop the real piracy has significantly infringed on the rights granted by the status quo in the pre-digital world.
re: content -- i didn't realize that such a neutral word as "content" would be taken as insulting. i meant it as a collective noun, not as a belittling descriptive. i apologize for causing offense. :\
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Date: 2012-01-29 11:39 pm (UTC)re: content -- i didn't realize that such a neutral word as "content" would be taken as insulting. i meant it as a collective noun, not as a belittling descriptive. i apologize for causing offense. :\