[Stu]

Originally Posted by setanta

Yep, I have a problem with your approach to discussions to be honest with you, when by and large they consist of a slightly ridiculing and sardonic tone with a propensity for cutting and pasting at will which highlights a reactionary and possibly egotistical individual. There's simply no need for it.

Sardonic tone? I'm Stu, pleased to meet you. I make points with a sarcastic edge, absolutely, but so do others, and we all have fun with it. Those of us with a stable mind, at least.

Cutting and pasting at will? It makes it easier for both me to argue and for the reader to read. A point with a counterpoint. Beats a whole wall of text. There is nothing else behind it apart from that.People can still view your original posts, I just copy an argument and reply to it. Simple. That equates to me being egotistical? Thanks for your amateur psychological interpretation of my keyboard skills. Want mine? Your paranoid.

For clarification :

Your original argument that I was responding to was that, in your mind, stealing from an artist is stealing from an artist, end of story. I already made my view on this quiet clear by explaining just how many variables are behind the situation. Artists wealth, album quality, artists input, exposure, you name it. Stealing an album produced by an overpaid diva with ghost written songs and a large record corporation distribution and advertising network is absolutely not the same thing as stealing an album from a struggling artist on an independent label with minor distribution.

It's just not in the same league. In the eyes of the law it might be the same but in the eyes of rational ethics and common sense? Hell no.