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Fair enough. But I am not, and have not been, arguing the legal aspect of this. I'm leaving that to the copyright lawyers, law lecturers and arm-chair law experts around here. :) I have been arguing since page 1 about the ethical and psychological aspects of file-sharing. Taking...

The owner of the copyright, who has decided how much I am willing to sell copies for in the free market system. Distribution of wealth? Now you endorse communism? Apparently you missed my post on page 3, where I said ;) Of course, I should also point out that anyone with a pirated copy...

I had a diagram from an old Dragan mag. that made it easier. I also spent a lot of time preparing and visualizing. Once the game started it went well until the party split up, then it got increasingly difficult to keep track of everything, especially when the illusions and confusion spells...

Would you stop, please. With that logic all law enforcement is terrorism (and I might actually agree, but that's not the point). Getting fined or imprisoned is not “terrorism.” As you are trying to couch it. Fear of legal punishment and fear of violent death are two very different things...

Sorry, poltical discussions are banned here :lol:

Actually, i'm a lot more politically active than you know... :lol:

No. I'm pretty sure I'm not boggled. No. you used an irrelevant example of anima child porn to point out something most of the people reading this already know: cultural norms exist. I challenge you to name a culture where theft is a social norm. And note I said "theft" not borrowing or...

I reiterate because I still don't buy the obfuscation I've read in the last page and a half. And because Korimyr is still saying things like this: and this Which I disagree with. and this: which is a false circular argument. if you were already non-buying, and you DIDN'T fileshare...

Taking something that costs money without paying for it is theft. It’s as simple as that. It makes no difference if that "something" is a "copy" of something else. You should have paid for it and you didn't, i.e. You STOLE it. It makes no difference if the producer of that material has a...

I've always associated them most with Norse mythology.

i've been waiting for someone to bring up murder. There's a reason I used speeding and not murder in my analogy. The psychology of killing is a whole seperate can of worms from what we are talking about. Indeed, its the subject of a new Chapter in my up-coming Book of Broken Dreams revision...

Most psychologists believe that humans, being social creatures, are hard wired for pro-social behavior. Indeed, it is this hard wiring that leads to a lot of other psychological factors, especially factors of interpersonal influence. When people diverge from pro-social behaviors it is because...

No. When psychologists use the term "justification" they mean it as a method for the person in question to reduce cognitive dissonance that occurs when they consider their actions that conflict with their self-concept. When you are killing the mosquito you do not experience cognitive...

A Case Study in Obedience and Morality So, I signed off the computer and went and ran some errands. My first stop was to get some gas. My local convenience store had a new sign up on the pump that asked people to pay first before pumping their gas. So I went in, gave the guy a $10 and told...

Let me re-phrase. Taking something that is normally sold for profit without paying for it is wrong. Certainly viewing a web page is not morally wrong (well, in certain circumstances it could be). If I copied the ENW front page and reposted as my own work on my own URL, that would be wrong...

oooh, moral relativism rears it’s ugly head.... ;) I mostly agree with you. I’ll agree that everything is relative. I'd just point out that if something is not right, it must be wrong, IMO.

As I mentioned recently in the private publisher forms over on RPGnow, the only real way to stop pirates is with a low-tech solution. DRM, passwords, and watermarks are NOT the answer. The only thing that will work is people (agents, snoops, narks, whatever you want to call them) who troll...

Surprisingly, I tend to agree with you. I think copyright laws tend to inhibit creativity. However, I still think downloading something without paying for it is wrong. Fair enough. Maybe my analogy was a little off. Sure, I can agree with that, I would just refer you to Simon's post above...

Could be, but if you spend too much time thinking about stuff like that, you'll go crazy :)

Yes, I would find that VERY wrong (and I wouldn't be surprised if that actually happened, since I live here in TN). However. that question is treading dangerously close to politics and kholbergs theory, so I'll stop here. I'm not saying that you should obey copyright laws because that's...