bitplayer opened this issue on Jan 08, 2003 ยท 67 posts
atthisstage posted Wed, 08 January 2003 at 12:27 PM
So its okay to steal until you get caught? Is that what I'm hearing now? Sorry if I'm seeming a little adamant, because frankly in the Grand Scheme of Things, it's all a little meaningless. But when I'm told, "Oh, well, see it's for non-commercial use" or "I'll only use it till they tell me not to", I start to suspect the sense of ethical morality at play here. Just about everyone in the now-locked thread was real quick to slam Tor for what they presumed was warezing, even though in his society it's not seen that way. Nope, it's all terribly black and white, and that's that. But when we raise those grey areas: DAZ selling models of Harleys or MM appropriating a trademarked name... well, then, it's like "Gosh, I'm not doing them any harm." Interesting, I must say.