How Do You Know If You’re A Snake?

I saw a thread discussing  intellectual property, and file-sharing.    As always,  there were those who defended file-sharing, and their allies, those who pretend not to defend it, but attack anyone who attacks it.  Cute.

 

One suggested that there is a twelve-year-old boy who can’t afford to read a Steven Barnes book, and that that is a legitimate arena with fuzzy morality.  Isn’t it all right if that twelve year old downloads and then becomes a fan down the road…

 

He’s not hurting anything...