I think Lyric has actually said herself, in the midst of a hissy fit on S2C that there is no free speech there, cos it's a PRIVATE board... :roll: Guess that means they get to pick and choose what human rights they adhere to, as it's PRIVATE...

But the difference is, you don't EXPECT people to donate. Your own donation system is the pure definition of donate, if people feel they want to give you their money, to keep your site going, then they can, they're purely doing it because they like your stuff, and want to keep it going. There's nothing there where you say 'You can ONLY have this IF you 'donate' the amount of money I dictate you to donate'

And you're incredibly open and honest about your donations, which do just go back into site maintinance. I think donation shouldn't be a bribe, like with many sites, but rather, an affirmation of a creator's skill, and the community's appreciation for that, by helping with site costs...

I am amused by the hypocrisy. Highly amused.

The pirate avs are very very nice, I've been highly admiring them and just itching for a time when it would't be too repulsively OT to mention it....*nods happily*

Especially given their treatment of people who have ALREADY paid for their goods, and wish to regain it, as a result of some mishap.

I avoid S2C like I do other things I wisely avoid...

*jumps up and down excitedly* Yes, I want to know that too!!

Perhaps they downloaded in protest though. You know, to use up all of Pescado's unlimited bandwidth, like wot Lyric did?

And resorting to name-calling then running away, when you're losing the argument, is not adding any creedence whatsoever to your cause.

Thing is, they have no right to ask money, because of whatever's going on in their personal lives. They can ask for money to cover the cost of their bandwidth, which, despite what they'd have you believe, for most people, isn't that much. Please, before you start crying and calling everyone thieves, and sobbing about how much these creators are being hurt, find out what you're talking about, and how what the precious creators are doing is actually less legal than this.

Privateer, I love you.

I still want to know where the male erectile disfunction mentioned in the first post fits into all of this...

You know, I had the EXACT same urge for nicotine! Huzzah!

Also



Because that would be stealing. There is no stealing going on here. The difference is, no-one has done any kind of smash-and-grab on these files, they were paid for fair and square, and copies of these files have been shared. That's why.

Oh. Now I see. That was a clever and relevent argument the troll made there.* blank stare*

1. Of course this post will stay, there's nothing corrupt about the management of this board, making false censorship or whatever.

2. Destroying? How? There's a lot going on here, destruction is not one of them, any destruction is purely at the choice of the creator in question.

3. There's no grudge here.

4. What the fuck are you on about? ' cause you could not get him up ?'

What strikes me as one of the silliest things about this is, she's taking it all so to heart, playing every bit of drama she can possibly squeeze from this....but almost NONE of her stuff is pay, only TWO things of hers are available here, it's not even like, (with his wicked thieving ways) Pescado has taken every solitary item from her site, said he made it, and charged people for it. I would, perhaps, understand a similar reaction if like, they were a paysite which had been pillaged to the gills, but no.

It's all for the drama, and the attention, and one would assume SPIES AND TRAITORS are feeding her tidbits of stuff from here, to give her more chance to take everything personally...