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I don't like the government doing what they did with Megaupload....when I heard of all this I felt a nameless dread.
There probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something but I don’t speak German.
Anyway, it’s a dread that nobody knows the name for...
Like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don’t know the name for those either.
 

GasBandit

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I don't like the government doing what they did with Megaupload....when I heard of all this I felt a nameless dread.
There probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something but I don’t speak German.
Anyway, it’s a dread that nobody knows the name for...
Like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don’t know the name for those either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_clip

As for the german name, I suggest Entsetzen.
 
I kind of dig when stuff like Napster gets shut down, forces the internet to innovate new ways to get free shit.
 
I don't like the government doing what they did with Megaupload....when I heard of all this I felt a nameless dread.
There probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something but I don’t speak German.
Anyway, it’s a dread that nobody knows the name for...
Like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don’t know the name for those either.
My word for it is "slippery slope."

Wait... d'oh, that's two words.
 

GasBandit

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Germans have the best names for negative things.

Positive things, not so much.

"I love you" in german roughly sounds like "I'm going to kill you slowly"
To me, "Ich liebe dich" always sounded more like "I intend to peel your genitals."
 
I get pirating in the instance where a movie isn't available in your region or whatever. Or in that gray period between theater release and Blu-Ray. But shit, with Netflix, DVRs, and iTunes, it's really easy to exchange money for shit you want to watch. Pirating TV shows isn't the same thing as taping VHS. If it was, it would be taping a VHS.

I'm not going to say I'm perfect and never pirate. But I still know it's wrong, that I'm a piece of shit for doing it, and I'm not going to get mad if steps are taken to stop it. Or parade around bragging about it.
 

ElJuski

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I think what gets me the most, though, is this faux sense of justice that most people on the internet strap on to thinly disguise that, like the rest of us, they'd rather just get some shit for free.
 
I think my all time favorite argument is the "Well, no one is losing out since I never would have bought it anyway". The logic of that completely loses me. I mean, there are some valid and some semi-valid reasons to dl torrents, but that one just mystifies me.
 

figmentPez

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I get pirating in the instance where a movie isn't available in your region or whatever. Or in that gray period between theater release and Blu-Ray. But shit, with Netflix, DVRs, and iTunes, it's really easy to exchange money for shit you want to watch. Pirating TV shows isn't the same thing as taping VHS. If it was, it would be taping a VHS.

I'm not going to say I'm perfect and never pirate. But I still know it's wrong, that I'm a piece of shit for doing it, and I'm not going to get mad if steps are taken to stop it. Or parade around bragging about it.
The part of this I don't like, is that cable companies have not lived up to their promises to make the content available to consumers. They have repeatedly knee-capped cable card technologies in order to make it harder for home users to access content they paid for. They have killed off firewire ports, and continually defied both what they promised customers and what they were legally required to do by the government. They have intentionally made it as difficult as possible to record video on your own terms, without renting a DVR from them, and specifically targeted any and all forms of DIY home theater boxes, trying to make them as expensive and difficult to implement as possible.

It's that bullshit that makes me unrepentantly download TV shows I can't stream legitimately from Hulu, but that are shown on my cable subscription. That type of asshattery also makes me sympathetic to anyone who downloads those shows without paying for them in any manner.
 

ElJuski

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I'm not saying I supported most of the thinly-veiled bullshit of the Occupy movement, but I think the things they're going for, and downloading that last episode of The Walking Dead, are two different ballfields.
 

GasBandit

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I'm not saying I supported most of the thinly-veiled bullshit of the Occupy movement, but I think the things they're going for, and downloading that last episode of The Walking Dead, are two different ballfields.
On a basic level, both are wanting things that they themselves aren't paying for. The difference is it's harder to pirate, say, health care because it's a tangible practice. You can't copy and paste doctors. That sort of makes it worse, though, doesn't it...
 

ElJuski

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On a basic level, both are wanting things that they themselves aren't paying for. The difference is it's harder to pirate, say, health care because it's a tangible practice. You can't copy and paste doctors. That sort of makes it worse, though, doesn't it...
That comparison is ridiculous.
 
healthcare is a right, season 3 of the sopranos is a privilege
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despite HBO's ludicrous DVD prices, buying The Wire complete series box set will not in fact put you in debt for the rest of your life and ruin your credit rating the same way as getting hit by a drunk driver will
 

ElJuski

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Hey, if you want to reduce the argument to "it's wrong to download media because you're getting something from somebody without paying for it," I can do the same for other concepts.
You can, but it will make you sound fucking stupid, because the two concepts are so wholly different that it boggles my mind you would make yourself sound so fucking dumb typing it out.
 

ElJuski

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But then again, this is Gas, so I shouldn't be surprised he values human life and curiosity over the new Weezer album at the same level.
 

GasBandit

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You can, but it will make you sound fucking stupid, because the two concepts are so wholly different that it boggles my mind you would make yourself sound so fucking dumb typing it out.
No, they aren't. Well, yes they are, but not in the way you mean.
 
Being against corporation personhood, supporting bank reform (specifically, the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act and repealling the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), and tax reform for a more progressive income tax system = stealing entertainment. Good to know.
 

ElJuski

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Weezer used to be inspired, weird pop rock. Now they're just the lazy pop-rock guys that once were inspired.
 

GasBandit

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Wait, wait, wait... I was wrong. I was completely wrong, I want to apologize.

I don't hate Weezer. I kinda like them. For some reason, you typed Weezer and I read "Green Day."

That is all, carry on.
 
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