Thoughts on piracy

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At what point is it okay to share the works of someone who is trying, or hoping to make a living at an artistic endeavour? Is it once they’ve achieved a living by it? When they’re rich by it?

With the internet, it’s certainly hard to fight it. Fight too hard and, like Metallica, you just make it worse. Don’t fight it hard enough and you’ll never get it to stop … assuming it’s even possible. So there’s a certain futility to it all.

I know people who’l...