[olde north church]

This is an excellent opportunity to bring the whole P2P thing into an forest vs tree situation. Several years ago, Rush came out against the napster concept, calling it stealing or something for nothing mindset.
He was concurrently extolling the virtues of tiVoing. How he was able to tiVo the football games and watch them without the commercials. I'm sure many of us have tried to contact Rush and chat regarding whatever issue on the table.
I tried to call and "debate" with him about the philosophy of P2P vs tiVo. How could he be against P2P yet support tiVo. Those football games are brought to the public by the dollars of the advertisers. To watch an event without watching the commercials is just as much stealing as filesharing. You're trying to get something for nothing.
Rationalize as much as you want, they are the same thing.
//stepping down from soapbox//

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

To watch an event without watching the commercials is just as much stealing as filesharing. You're trying to get something for nothing.

That's the stupidest thing I ever read.