RikuoAmero said:
What you may not know about this kid is that what he did is completely and 100% LEGAL in the UK. That's what started this shit-fest on the interwebz. He did something completely legal in the UK and yet...he's being extradited to the US for breaking their laws...
So explain to me again please. How is it that a British citizen, on British soil, can do an activity that his government has declared legal, and yet he can still be extradited to another country for breaking their laws?
Honestly, times are changing, while it is true that this sort of activity is legal in the UK, it is not written explicitly in the law that it's legal. This is all based on some landmark decisions, it's a de facto stance of the courts. These sorts of things can easily be reversed by means of tweaks to the laws and more specifically international treaties, which is happening as we speak on a very large scale.
I never said it wasn't legally questionable to extradite him under the circumstances. My point is that piracy is highly immoral, and that whether or not the law dictates it, people who support the piracy on such a scale as this kid are in fact criminals. They are criminals who leech off of the intellectual properties of other companies for their own gains.
So who cares if people like him are getting it up the ass, they're morally skewed people who have actively done wrong to others. Who cares if they're setting precedents for further prosecutions of similar nature, they're setting precedents against other morally skewed people.
I honestly think this has more to do with the current generation simply being bitter with inevitable changes to their little worlds. The internet has been an integral part of our lives for almost 20 years. It came out of nowhere and no government was prepared for the potential it held, the internet was virtually ungoverned for the longest time.
We've grown up with this concept that whenever you want some music you just download it, whenever you want a movie you download it, whenever you want a game you download it, everything is free and that's how we've grown up thinking the media world works. Now the governments are finally starting to get a grasp on things, jurisdictions are being set up, treaties are being signed, the internet is becoming a controlled entity. People will say the internet is a public domain, and maybe it is, but when you go to a public park, do you expect to be exempt from the law because it's "public domain", it's yours to use as you want within means of the law.
Anyway, it's really just this concept that everything should be free that is driving people mad I think. Piracy in all forms has always been theft to a degree, and we're just going to start having to get used to a world where we actually have to pay for our stuff. And we're being treated very nicely for it. We get a lot of TV shows and even some movies for free from official sources. iTunes isn't exactly cheap, but it still makes purchasing music cheaper. Steam gives you great deals on all games, you're almost never paying anywhere near full retail price. Things like Netflix have an ever expanding variety of movies and shows to watch for exceptionally small prices. It's not perfect, but we're being given very reasonable alternatives to piracy, we're just in an era where piracy is finally ready to be phased out.
Initial point anyway, I believe it's acceptable to make such exceptions when our laws have been very sketchy and improperly structured since the beginning, this is what's happening, we're building a structure for it all finally.
