I still think, that if I had spent days or months of my time working on something, staying up late, not going out and socialising, basically pouring my blood, sweat and tears into it, I would be mightily peeved if I saw someone else with a DVD burner making the money out of it.
Back in the day, we would call these people 'lamers'
I'm not saying that we should find every pirate and burn them at the stake, or that we should get up tight about a copy of Lemmings being bundled with an Amiga sold on eBaY, but making a reasonable amount of cash out of someone else's work, when they are not is just WRONG. I know everyone has different ethics, but I am very firm on this.
I'm not going to get into a deep conversation about whether piracy killed the Amiga. But I do know one thing, which I think is a great analogy....
After the revolution in Russia, the Bolsheviks requisitioned grain from the kulaks to feed the workers in the cities. So the kulaks, near destitute themselves, tending their fields got no money for their year's work.
The Bolsheviks went back the following year to requisition more grain for the workers in the cities. And guess what? The farmers hadn't bothered growing any. Why blame them, no idiot is going to work for a year so some city-dweller can come along and forcibly take the fruits of their labours from them....
