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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilref" data-source="post: 4969070" data-attributes="member: 73517">By your argument I'm free to steal books from any bookshop, Music from any musicshop, films from video stores etc. etc. Actually walk in and steal it, afterall I'm 'paying my own expenses' which are 0.I cannot believe you're actually espousing this view as being acceptable.If they want to (permanently, not talking about borrowing from a library/friend here) obtain something that another person created then damn right they have to pay for it. They didn't create it, they're benefiting from someone else's work. I'm in 'the rest of the world' For four years my job has been rights management and copyright laws regarding 'the rest of the world'. Thankfully the majority of the world believes that creators have the right to be paid for their creations. Likewise that copying of another's work without their permission is unlawful. The number of first world or developing world countries who believe otherwise is actually the minority. Try checking out how many countries have signed up to the Berne Convention before thinking this is a US-centric issue.See above paragraph. You're very, very wrong here.</blockquote>