[benologist]

Piracy is the future of course - musicians and performers and actors and writers etc are embracing a dying business model and should seek revenue elsewhere, either by selling tshirts or spending months on the road away from their friends and families performing live or by just accepting that 1% paying pennies online is better than 100% paying dollars.

It's not theft because it's just 1s and 0s, not real work like what we do.

The view from our comfy pedestals, safe in the knowledge that our web applications can't be effortlessly copied, is not at all flawed!

[BrandonMTurner]

If it is "just 1s and 0s", does this mean making desktop software is also 'not real work'? And thus, copying desktop software is also not problem just as copying music is not a problem. And programmers should go find a new way to make money that is not developing and selling desktop software?

[benologist]

Programmers already did - complete, mandatory binding to online services because your user account / subscription can't be distributed like the software.