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Michael, I am actually pretty disgusted with that last paragraph from you, that's a bloody elitest comment if ever I saw it and I wouldn't be surprised if other people took offense to it as well.

What if one of the other more prolific posters had just posted that when they had only[/] 26 posts? does that make you a better person than them? You can't go around saying people are wrong based on their post count because if you do this place would empty of new comers quicker than you can say tosspot.

 

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I just love all the outrage on a thread that is about a month old. The ship has sailed on this one, no? Wait wait, I'm going back to the Comptia cert expiry thread to start more outrage about it...

Whilst BM's tone may or may not be an issue. It is not for us regular (even premium) members to actively police. If you have an issue with his posts, click the report option and let the mods deal with it as they see necessary.

 

I don't even know where to begin with your ridiculous retorts at me but you've done a good enough job of exhibiting your dismal attitude without me pointing it our further, so I'll just leave you to it now, mate.

 

I see both points here.

The OP maybe was doing this innocently and maybe he should have been warned by a mod but BM makes money from creating material that people will copy or publish when they have no right to do so.

Most people on here will have copied the odd film or watched a pirated version of a film, maybe if you owned a c64 or speccy when you were younger you had hudreds of games on cassette tapes. At the end of the day this was stealing and taking money away from people who had the right to earn that money.

Now everyone makes mistakes and maybe a sticky should be created to warn people of posting about copyrighted material or something along those lines so this doesn't happen again.

Maybe BMs tone was a bit wrong but things like that happen when you get pissed off.

 

My, how these things snowball.

Not posting copyrighted material is in the rules and guidelines.
Unfortunately this relies on members reading said rules and guidelines, but also understanding the concept of IP and copyright.

There are some guys on here, like BM, who are technical authors and it's ultimately them that suffer from all of this so I can understand their frustration and anger. If it hasn't hurt you, I don't expect you to understand it. As GBL says, we've all copied a C90 tape as kids, or taped something off the radio. We can shrug it off, but it's different when you see colleagues not getting salary rises this year or losing their jobs because you're not making the money that you should be.

Sorry, the answer was D was it?
I've forgotten.

 

I don't think anyone is judging BM for being outspoken on copyright, it's the way he has chosen to vent this that leaves a bad taste.

Mind you what do i know, i have less than 1000 posts

 

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If you both also don't like the way I've "done things here", you too can click that little ! in the upper-right corner.

I won't (and can't) please everyone. But I will speak the truth, whether anyone likes it or not.

All I'm saying is that I don't need someone with 26 posts... or 2600 posts... to tell me what I should and shouldn't be saying, or how I should or shouldn't be saying it.

As Jonny and GBL rightly said, let's see you guys get your stuff stolen and see how much you guys want to tolerate piracy or coddle those who decide it's "not that bad".

 

Michael, it's not the truth thats an issue here, it's that you said that someone with only 26 posts doesn't matter.

 

I wrote a long and fairly comprehensive response to BMs last post but I can't be arsed with it so I'll just set a couple of things straight.

1. I have in the past reported people for software piracy, illegal downloading and violations of copyright laws.
2. I have never tolerated piracy.


Oh and BM,

I did.

 

All I'm saying is that I don't need someone with 26 posts... or 2600 posts... to tell me what I should and shouldn't be saying, or how I should or shouldn't be saying it. I'm really, really, really tired of people telling me how to post.