Recent content by underattack86

You mean the medium or the website? Yes to the medium, no to the website.

W-w-w-what? Taxing broadband access is laissez faire? No, c'mon. Laissez faire means NON-INTERFERENCE: taxation is the very opposite. I agree with laissez faire capitalists for a million different reasons. This is just one more.

"Devalued"? That's not the same thing as having property taken. Who has lost property? Nobody. User A sent User B some 1's and 0's from their hard-drive. OBVIOUSLY the publisher has lost no property. If you could name a single victim to this so-called crime then you would have done so by now...

Hire Nolan North, that guy just doesn't get enough work.

No, I understand what you're saying, it's just objectively incorrect. What you've legally defined as theft defies the actual definition of the concept of theft. What I don't understand is why you slavishly defend the state's definition of sharing as theft when we can use our rational capacity to...

How can anything be an act of theft without a victim? Theft is the taking of property, and property can only belong to individual people, therefore an act of theft without a victim cannot be theft. We can talk abstractly about how big or small certain industries are, ignoring the various...

It's not theft. Theft requires the loss of property: no property is lost when files are shared, the information is merely duplicated from the property of the sharer to the property of the recipient. Lets say, hypothetically, that I'm downloading a .avi copy of the movie Red Dawn. At which point...

Intellectual piracy is a crime without a victim, hence not a crime at all by the proper definition. You appear to be defending ICE: why, exactly? How is it acceptable to blindly enforce immoral and unjust laws simply because Congress demands it? ICE, DHS, Congress itself... they're all nothing...