The beginning of the end for P2Ps/Torrent Sites?

[Strangelet]

Its just soooo transparent that people will say anything to assauge their conflict of moral footing when file sharing media art.

case in point

Then I will call you a dirty thief for all those used CDs you bought that ripped money directly out of the artists pockets. Because apparently you can steal without actually taking anything away from anyone.

Which I'm sure buying a used cd is the same thing as buying a bootleg cdr off a blanket on a brooklyn street corner, right? We just conveniently forget that copying more and buying from a constant numbered pool of resources are two vastly different things from the artist's financial perspective?

Its transparent because the arguments are so bad. Its not that the people aren't logical. THey are just bound to arguments are just a few steps away from being "I'm a self-entitled consumer who feels like if the technology exists to circumvent all established forms of exchange then I'm morally justified in doing so."

That entitlement is bolstered by the evilness of the RIAA and by a complex karmic calculus by the downloader to make sure that they go to the concert and buy the shirt as compensation.

But its all just entitlement that is overwhelmingly self-originated. Like all theft.