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This is pretty bold: Firefox add-on allows you to download purchaseable stuff on Amazon for free: - Andrew Baron
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It just provides a link to the torrent on PirateBay, not quite as bold as the headline makes it out to be. - xero
@xero, yea but with regards to music, films, etc. its kinda like "aiding and abetting" with regards to making it easy for people to get the stuff that they want for free, even though they are already customers of Amazon. I just think its interesting that this exists. - Andrew Baron
Bold? I'm not sure that's the correct word. Any notion that some act of "sharing" or theoretically ethical behavior is taking place utilizing peer-to-peer approaches is negated when you "boldly" say,"Here's a tool to help you be a pirate" - Rex Hammock
Rex, I hear what you are saying and I agree to your angle too. In parallel however, I think this kind of application might actually be considered illegal to distribute and possibly illegal to use. Just for example, if you are a regular Amazon customer and then install this app and then see a music CD of U2 on Amazon that you might buy for $8.99, and then click to d/l for free over p2p, isn't that stealing in a way? This is different than using p2p & sharing in other ways. - Andrew Baron
BYW, they use a quote from Lessig about free culture which I support in theory, but in this context, Im pretty sure Lessig would disagree. "How can you compete with free? You cant!" - Lawrence Lessig" - Andrew Baron








