Limewire is a bunch of hypocrites

Great, a bunch of little hipsters bitching about who can eat their pizza. Somehow they're trying to equate this to stealing music, but like the comments have already argued it's entirely different. The only way this represents the copyright problem as a whole is via the representation that both sides act like little kids who can't sit down and try to work things out. Instead they grab pizza boxes, run, and spill beer on each other.

Pizza is a physical good, Music is an informational good - there is a variable cost associated with taking one piece of pizza and turning it into two pieces - there is no (or at least a very limited) variable cost in duplicating a piece of information, like music.

Hence, although you can steal both music and pizza, the physical ramifications of doing so are different.

(disclaimer: I'm not trying to say stealing music is "less" bad than stealing pizza, but rather am just trying to state the differences between the two)

A plague on both your houses.

The industry has enough problems without the drunken antics of self-centered man-children adding to them. Take disputes to the courts or the market, in a fashion befitting civilized adults.

Nice example of how not to do PR.

When someone downloads a song, the song still exists to be listened to and sold. When someone steals pizza, it's gone.

I've gotten some weird looks and a few questioning words from Limewire employees at parties in their own office, like I was some riff-raff that drifted in from the street. Ultimately, however, they always gave up the inquisition and went back to trying to impress girls and/or lure them into the lounge room. Fantastic roof deck though.

I know some of the engineers and they're incredibly nice guys, but the company has been flooded by those typical business types.

The tech industry is really passive-aggressive. Angry diatribes, pizza theft, blog posts... if some guy dumped beer all over my laptop on purpose I'd just put him on the floor, like a normal person.

Limewire profits from other people sharing stuff. These guys profited from pizza. Neither group asked where their respective stuff came from. Doesn't seem too hypocritical to me.

the Limewire people could have been a little friendlier but how does that justify the artists stealing their entire pizza box ?

he got what he deserved, go write a song about it and then send me the torrent link. If i really like it i'll go buy it, or maybe see you live at a venue where you perform, purchase the drinks and maybe an overpriced tshirt.

Blogging about the illegal goods floating around your servers should be a crime.

New York is a tough place!