May 25, 2015, 14:13 pm
Today, I've made a perverse discovery: I do not like pre-releases, and can no longer justify them.
When I mean "pre-releases," I mean stuff that are released for free consumption by pirates ahead of time. Hot off the press, in other words.
Now, I'm not going to say that I haven't used one unknowingly, and that I don't like piracy. Of course I like piracy; all my life, I've been assisted by it, loved by it, and I love it back. Piracy has been my life. I can justify using it and sharing it to myself forever. It is useful on many grounds: evaluation, backup, convenience, and need. But here's the bad part.
Besides opportunities for equal consumption around the world, like the destruction of region-coding, what appeal does it have for downloading it ahead of time? What purpose does it have other than to justify that we are impatient and, if I may be so bold, spoiled. Now, like I said, I love piracy, and I believe in the spirit of sharing culture, but if we to continue to eat the forbidden fruit, at least we should have some patience to wait until the tree can produce more.
I hope this doesn't paint a bad, hypocritical picture of myself, and I hope this doesn't make enemies out of the friends that I make in this forum, but I think I've become someone that I don't like.
As posed by the topic, am I normal?
When I mean "pre-releases," I mean stuff that are released for free consumption by pirates ahead of time. Hot off the press, in other words.
Now, I'm not going to say that I haven't used one unknowingly, and that I don't like piracy. Of course I like piracy; all my life, I've been assisted by it, loved by it, and I love it back. Piracy has been my life. I can justify using it and sharing it to myself forever. It is useful on many grounds: evaluation, backup, convenience, and need. But here's the bad part.
Besides opportunities for equal consumption around the world, like the destruction of region-coding, what appeal does it have for downloading it ahead of time? What purpose does it have other than to justify that we are impatient and, if I may be so bold, spoiled. Now, like I said, I love piracy, and I believe in the spirit of sharing culture, but if we to continue to eat the forbidden fruit, at least we should have some patience to wait until the tree can produce more.
I hope this doesn't paint a bad, hypocritical picture of myself, and I hope this doesn't make enemies out of the friends that I make in this forum, but I think I've become someone that I don't like.
As posed by the topic, am I normal?