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Until someone can prove a negative impact of piracy on the copyright holders all you say is rubbish and plain wrong.

No company should be allowed to hinder my free speech.

And no worries, I do not use any Microsoft products, but I can IM people who do use live messenger from Linux IM apps. I am guessing I will be censored anyway, which is just horrible and outrageous.

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No company should be allowed to hinder my free speech.

We've already established why your use of the words "free speech" is invalid, and rather than addressing that, you're just making arbitrary assertions (which, because they are arbitrary, should be ignored).

Until someone can prove a negative impact of piracy on the copyright holders

It's been proven, and is also quite obvious, but again, you're just going on emotion and arbitrary assertion.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-governmen...

Any claim that copyright infringement does not hurt copyright holders is dishonest, and people who make dishonest claims should not be admitted into serious discussions.

I'm responding to gitarr here, not the link itself.

That is quite a blanket statement there, javert. Claims that are well researched with evidence to back them SHOULD be included in the conversation, why not?

So, you assert that any argument against you is inadmissable in the debate. So you're trying to argue that you yourself win this debate no matter what. That really isn't how this works.

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