Prior to print? There was no moral/legal notion of 'pirating'

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden Oral tradition, or pirating, was encouraged. Songs, stories, drawings were re-created and handed down.

— Kevin Mellon (@kmellon) March 30, 2011

@kmellon the right thing to do was to pass things on. Even after 300odd years of copyright laws it's hard to make moral arguments.

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden Yeah, it's a weird thing where you feel like you own something, but ultimately once you put it out there, it's not yours.

— Kevin Mellon (@kmellon) March 30, 2011

@kmellon but that's not legal. So is it moral or legal to rip CDs? Who the fuck knows. Coma pre that to pure idea of 'theft' or ''murder'

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden haha yeah. Such a clusterfuck of grey area. Moral is so subjective, it usually falls to corporation/businesses deciding.

— Kevin Mellon (@kmellon) March 30, 2011

@kmellon and the UK riaa have only said it's ok, cus they don't want anyone testing it in court- it's a lose/lose for them whatever outcome

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden interesting. I bet it was amusing for you guys to watch the US RIAA make such asses out of themselves by suing college kids.

— Kevin Mellon (@kmellon) March 30, 2011

@kmellon yeah. Is it morally worse to bankrupt someone because they downloaded half a dozen files? Magic eight ball says…

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden @kmellon on the other hand, if everyone steals the work & no one buys it, artists don't make a living = no more art.

— Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie) March 30, 2011

@McKelvie @pauljholden My argu. is the people that want to steal it, will. Most will pay, just need to make it easy for them to do so.

— Kevin Mellon (@kmellon) March 30, 2011

@kmellon @mckelvie @pauljholden I want to do a faith in humanity style project to give away. But, I've little faith in humanity.

— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) March 30, 2011

@JoshFialkov @kmellon @mckelvie it's been done. Freak angels is given away, and yet it makes money (I assume).

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden @joshfialkov @kmellon that's a different model though (free serialisation, pay chunks) that isn't *quite* analogous to pirating

— Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie) March 30, 2011

@McKelvie @pauljholden @kmellon Yeh, I'm talking release content in a free, unlocked format, and put up a tip jar.

— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) March 30, 2011

@JoshFialkov @McKelvie @kmellon well, simply putting content up and begging for payment is a bit bonkers. I think you to do it smarter.

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011

@pauljholden @McKelvie @kmellon I like to think of it less as begging and more as "Self Policing." :D

— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) March 30, 2011

Imagine a netflix model on comixology – would anyone need to pirate again?

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) March 30, 2011