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Originally posted by towny
I do see something wrong with it. It's illegal. I have never disagreed with you on this point. What I have said, is that focusing on this point obscures the central issue which is, 'is ntl inciting people to commit illegal acts?'
I have never downloaded any film illegally from the internet, and I would be interesed if you could link to anything I have said that has given you cause to think that I have.
I'll give you a starter for 10 - I tried out Napster a couple of years ago but never moved on to use any other p2p application because I felt distinctly uncomfortable about it. It is illegal after all.
For someone who is so concerned about everyone's morals, you are remarkably tolerant of the way NTL appears to be acting in this instance. This country has laws precisely so that breaking them does make a difference.
You protested in an earlier post that you are not on some mission to defend ntl at any cost on any issue, or words to that effect. I hope you can understand why some folks find that hard to believe. This to me is simply a case of, have ntl broken the law (and spent our subscription money doing it) or have they not? If they have, what should happen to them? There was no need to make it a slanging match over people's morality.
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It's not the fact whether what ntl or you (and when I say 'you' I don't mean you personally towny, so apologies for the confusion there
) are behaving illegally.
Yes, I am tolerant of it, because I don't see it as a big deal, just as I don't see illegally downloading films as a big deal - I have more than a couple of downloaded albums myself.
I am so sick of repeating myself, and am not going to do it again, and I really want to give all you good people the benefit of the doubt that you are intelligent enough to understand what I'm getting at - illegal or not, ntl or not, it's the
HYPOCRISY OF THE SITUATION that I find appalling.
If you were all intent on outing yourselves to the relevant authorities on all the illegal downloading you've done, you may be able to gain some respect and have a decent argument. But until then, IMO you're just bored, with sad, pointless agendas. I;m not trying to start a slanging match, just saying as I see it.