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Originally Posted by slark01
If you persistantly steal goods from a shop, you lose your freedom or are fined. So if you share music/video/ game files which are copywrited you should also lose your privilege of having internet access. Now tell me what is wrong in that, you break the law you get punished.
We may not like it ( I know I don't ), but at the end of the day if we did not have copywrite laws then people wouldn't bother making music/films/games and therefore we would not have such a diversity ( and in some cases ) quality in music/films/games.
Just be more careful folks and you will be alright, use Peerguardian as an example. 
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Peerguardian has more holes than a sieve
And the whole theft thing is a flawed analogy that they've been trying to get people to buy for years, stealing from a shop is one thing, making a digital copy of a file is nothing like stealing...
Anyone who thinks the RIAA/MPAA/BPI/etc etc are actually looking out for the artists, or anything but the record label's profits then
They took down The Pirate Bay yesterday, forced their hosting provider to remove access, less than 24hrs later it's back up with a message for the morons who think it will just disappear. "the internet" is smarter tan they are, the sooner they realise they're wasting their time trying to take down websites the sooner they can start looking at the matter they should be worrying about...
At the end of the day every technological advancement has had the copyright lobby up in arms about how they're going to go out of business, they resist and eventually adapt, the digital age will be no different, they can take mandy out for as many lunches as they want but they'll achieve nothing by criminalising ~6,000,000 of their own customers
Welcome to the future big record/picture, someday you'll catch up