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The equivalent would be cutting the credits off a movie and replacing them with release group name and scene shoutouts.

• davidw 14y ago
  The point being, whenever there is an article about "piracy" - being this sort of generic, "victimless" action (say "crime" and people will really go apeshit on you) - and people fall over themselves to defend it, say it's not a problem, indicate that it's just a symptom and fuck the content people if they can't deal, and so on. It's interesting that when it's just one person with their own story, that is somehow closer to HN, it seems to either change opinions, or bring out a different set of commentors. This despite the in question few paragraphs being orders of magnitude less effort to produce than a lot of the content that is typically "pirated". (Note all the downvotes with nary a response)
  • nikcub 14y ago
    These are two separate issues. They have only become confused because the MPAA/RIAA insists on referring to piracy as 'copyright theft' when it is not. Plagiarism and copyright theft (in the real, classic, sense) has always been a criminal offense.
  • jack-r-abbit 14y ago
    I got your point. And yes they are two different things with (probably) two different sets of commenters. Many people provide many different rationales and justifications for why piracy is ok. It is unpopular to say otherwise and will get you downvoted. That is just how it goes.