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user-inactivated  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pirate Bay Founder: "I have given up the idea that we can win this fight for the internet."

Well, I hang out on r/fantasy with a lot of struggling new authors. There's really no ':D' about it. Instead, it's just another week they can't quit their day job.

I torrent music (which is at least somewhat defensible on practical grounds). I used to steal from grocery and convenience stores regularly. But I don't pretend to morals I don't deserve.





user-inactivated  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I would like to quite my job and volunteer to help modernize Axiom's interactive environment and visualization functions, because an adequate free replacement for Mathematica is desperately needed and Axiom is the best candidate. Hacking on aging computer algebra systems does not pay the bills; boring old workflow automation does. Capitalism is not my friend, nor yours. Nevertheless, I don't think failing to provide an incentive to keep producing is the same as denying access to a physical thing. I don't claim sharing is a good thing to do, just solidly indifferent.

user-inactivated  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The consequences seem very similar, which is what matters to me.

    I don't claim sharing is a good thing to do, just solidly indifferent.

Many do. Most, even, in the torrenting/filesharing/free internet movement regard themselves as on the vanguard of something or another.

user-inactivated  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am so not doing utilitarian vs. consequentialist round one million.

user-inactivated  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yah. Shades of gray, I think.