This article starts out talking about piracy and ends up talking about free culture. I'm not sure I understand the correlation. When it comes to piracy, I think there is a fine line between right and wrong. On the one hand, everything has been done... you just have to do it your own way. Every artist uses other artists as inspiration. Artists have built careers on making blatant copies of other artists work (I forget the technical term). I personally use other artists work and change it into something that is my own quite frequently.
To blatantly just steal, or copy someone else work and profit from it is definitely wrong... but, where do you draw the line? When it comes to policing piracy... there is just not enough law enforcement to begin to make a dent in the constant flood of piracy flowing through the internet.
Yes, we have a free society... to some extent. Freer than most, I suppose... but, freedom is rapidly going the way of the Dodo.
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