Re: pirate bay, w3m, and the interface is just an interface (BEST post ever)

[Emanuel Berg]

Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co> writes:

> History has been full of groups who use their
> majority to arbitrarily strip the rights away from a
> minority. They had ways of rationalising it away
> too. Just be sure of who you're aligning yourself
> with.

You are telling us we are doing the Robin Hood thing.
But it is you who put yourself in a hunted, creative
minority that is assaulted by the big, bad and
ignorant majority. I don't think you are in any way
part of some unprivileged minority of unsung heroes
(on the contrary), and as for creativity it is not
only writers and movie makers that are creative and
"artistic" (in you phrasing) in the way they go about
their daily activity. Clint Eastwood once said~ that
making movies is of course an art, but so is plumming.
Now that's a healthy attitude, and correct as well.

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