Grunnt

My 30 euro simple Nokia phone has a week long battery life, and I'm pretty sure the user experience it offers will be a lot better than an e-ink Android phone.

Correlation != causation. If the numbers show that file-sharers buy more music than people who do not file-share, this does not prove at all that file-sharing leads to people buying more music. Maybe sharing of music files and buying music have a common cause: a passion for music.

It's just what you want to read in these numbers. People who download a lot of music (as in not buy it) unsurprisingly tend to believe in this causation without question.

Life is not a service. You did not sign a contract. Not everything is a business agreement. Individualism is not the ultimate value.

I guess that is what bugs me the most about this article: the idea that seems to underlie it that humans are all rational beings that are somehow unconnected to society. Or at least the idea that it is morally desirable for this to be the case.

I do not agree with this. It is individualism taken too far, beyond where the idea of individualism is meaningful. Human beings need social conditioning as much as they need food and drink to survive. Anarchism is a nice theory (much like pure communism or capitalism) but it disregards the nature of human beings, who need to be embedded in society with all its rules, norms and conditioning mechanisms to function.

If you want a different society, go into politics, change things for the better. Don't sit on the couch complaining that the "service" is not as good as you like.

p.s. Life is life (nanananana)