I’m sorry, but that’s the equivalent of being “really brave while your running away.” As in you are all prepared to call me a moron, but not prepared to actually pony up an argument as to why it is so.

I’ll be clear. I’ve used file-sharing services… many times. I knew darn well that my favorite performer spent months developing their new acts in the hope that it would turn into box office/top forty/NY Times Best Seller list gold for them and provide them with a profitable career. I was a 20-something idiot who listened to the “information wants to be free” BS and decided that I DESERVED this digital entertainment. I can see you are stuck in the same immature reality.

Please try to think about the consequences of your actions (not saying that you should stop, since I think the end result is unavoidable, but you should have the self-respect to feel remorse). Right now, more than half of movies that are put out don’t make a profit. No small part of this has to do with people torrenting them instead of checking them out in theaters. Due to this trend, movie budgets will shrink, producers will continue to only fund “sure thing” films like the sequels to last year’s blockbuster. If in ten years, they are filming Iron Man VII, but the graphics are worse than the first movie, feel free to blame torrenters who thing they deserve to see the movie for free.

And sorry, Lamb, when the adults gather and actually discuss things using things like reason and dialogue, it won’t be me that sounds like a moron.