Piracy Summit Speakers

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Non harmful????

It's harming the profitability of the Internet. I have no problem with you buying content or using content you own to advertsie webcams or dating sites or even your own site. I do have a problem with you having content that is obviously stolen on your site so you can earn a profit.

You don't care because you're laughing all the way to the bank...[snip]

Wait, what?

You're creating an argument that porn is harmful? And analogous to smoking, so therefore either it - or the wide and varied world of the internet should be limited to the type of speech you find appropriate, in the format you approve? Is that what you're saying? Because that's what it looks like.

I'm not entirely sure where you're coming up with the idea that a) I have stolen content or b) that I am "laughing all the way to the bank" - or really what the second has to do with anything regardless, as I'm not entirely sure my take-home pay is germane to the conversation at hand.

I find it profoundly distubring that you feel regulation at a federal - or possible international level, since the internet defies political boundaries, which is part of what makes it great - level appropriate or necessary, considering your niche of choice is one of the very ones that bring us, as an industry, under scrutiny.

Which is where that whole "free speech" thing comes into play.