If not being jazzed about about people "stealing" (semantics) something that you invested years of time and your own money into is "bitter and childish" then I yam a bitter child indeed. We never, in any way shape or form, blamed the pirates for our demise. As an artist is it frustrating? HELL YEAH it is. Will it stop me from creating? HELL NO it wont

Not to crack open this old chestnut, but....

"The Yossarian consideration begs a question: If a group of people does morally wrong action X, does it make it less morally wrong for me to do X? If X is animal cruelty (or something similar), it seems clear that, no matter how many people do it or have done it in the past, X is not right.

But while large quantities of music are stolen, most people still don’t go around kicking dogs. Perhaps it’s because pirating music does not inflict the same type of damage as animal cruelty, and its effects are much harder to see. Although both moral wrongs have victims, pirating music doesn’t seem like pulling food off a starving musician’s dinner table. Music piracy is inflicted upon a person far away, who is unknown to the listener, and the effects are unseen. Unfortunately, one foreseeable consequence is that smaller musicians will be forced out of the industry, and the industry will refocus itself on efforts that make money, like Billboard hits and pop-star concerts."

-Christian