fauve opened this issue on Oct 11, 2001 ยท 33 posts
DTHUREGRIF posted Fri, 12 October 2001 at 11:34 AM
Thanks, Stefy. Those restrictions, while understandable, just didn't seem practical. I sympathize with your plight. As an artist who sells her work and as the owner of an online store, I know all too well about the warez problem. It's getting worse all the time and don't think that the members of this, or any other community, are better or worse about it than anyone else. Although I have to really take umbrage at the idea that it is somehow "worse" to steal from an individual artist than it is from a corporation. Corporations have to pay their bills just like anyone else AND they have employees that they are responsible to. Those employees aren't faceless numbers. They are real people with real families to feed. Steal from a corporation and you are stealing from them. Not to mention jacking up the prices for legitimate users who have to pay more to cover the costs of theft.