Stealing is Just Plain Wrong

Peter Cohen of The Loop gives his response to David Hamilton’s piece at The Mac Observer that ended with this quote:

“I’d love to have the convenience of not stealing from you.”

Cohen’s response:

There’s right, and there’s wrong. Stealing stuff is just plain wrong. We learn this as children, yet somehow we make elaborate excuses for it as we get older, like “Well, I’m just copying bits. I’m not really stealing.” Or “If it weren’t so hard for me to get legitimately, I wouldn’t have to steal it instead.”

When the studios make it hard for you to have content you want, you should just live without it, or reward other content providers who make it easier for you to do business with them.