Do you pay to download music?

[Captain Lexington]

SV, your reasoning makes more sense than other people's but it seems to imply that production companies are the only people losing money when you steal. It's true that when I pick some ten year old game at Savers for two dollars the money isn't going to Interplay anymore, but it is going somewhere.

And also, Musicians and actors of course make more than wage slaves because people spend money on their products and that money obviously has to go somewhere. The only way to fix it would be from up there amongst the musicians and actors, like making an extensive charity that gives money to teachers and stuff, the really important members of society.

[Emerald]

Plus I used to be a professional burglar and various other kinds of thief in my slightly younger days, so I feel pretty fine about stealing stuff anyways.   Gods bless ye, Pirate Bay, sez I!

How can you be a 'professional' burglar? It's not like they have theft agencies who'll provide you with gigs, or a label which will sign you on as a pro... What exactly sets you apart from regular burglars?


Anyway, I don't delude myself with any sort of notions of grandeur like 'sticking it to the man' or 'giving those cocky hollywood bastards their comeuppance'.

I download music because I like music, and as far as I'm concerned it's totally inconsequential -- these rockstars couldn't care less about the few hundred euros they've missed out on because of me downloading their music (not to mention that the audio quality is usually worse, the format can be awkward and you often end up with an incomplete album -- I often end up buying it in the end).

Any arguments against it is purely on principle. It's like jay-walking -- illegal, but everybody does it (at least in Dublin they do).

[Play_Pretend]

Style and panache!  8)

[Emerald]

Style and panache!  8)

Sounds exciting. I heard that noble burglars pick houses with no kids, and never carry lethal weapons.

[Play_Pretend]

Pish...amateurs!  I'm so noble I didn't even do houses.  And I have so much panache that anything I carry becomes a weapon.   

(Well, okay, my very first failure was a house, and it learned me my lesson but good, even though I didn't (but nearly) got caught.)  It was a 6-year stint of nothing but commercial buildings for me!  Well, discounting the shoplifting, false ID manufacturing, credit and check fraud, embezzlement, identity theft, and other things that mostly didn't involve B&E.  I gave it up willingly when my last job got screwed up due to an all-night party being thrown at my target...seriously, who parties at a hockey rink on Christmas Eve?  My nerves were too frazzled, and I've been on the wobblingly narrow ever since.

So yeah, no houses.  8)

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Thanks for the confession; I don't think anyone here would be happy to have you show up at Mittens, though. 

[evenwolf]

Maybe Mittens goers will each have to bring a designated item that he can burgle and nothing else.  Like a big pile of staplers.

[Play_Pretend]

Awww, give me *some* credit...I was a gentleman thief.  I wouldn't steal from friends, and certainly not other Adventure Gamers.

(ProgZmax:  Heh, that wasn't really a confession.  Confession implies penitence, and all my memories of it are warm and fuzzy.  I love telling people stories about my own adventurous days, and it's not like anyone can prove any of it in court. )