You're right. This isn't the place to debate piracy.

I gave up being an artist because here in Australia I have to pay 10% tax on the sale of my work. Thanks to the system I pay tax on the material and equipment, I simply can't afford that. Since my current income is below the poverty line. Someone else can come along and sell my piece for 10 to 100 times what I sold it for and not have to pay tax. Yep thats fair.

Have the idea, do the work and have someone else profit on the resale of it. Just because they bought it. Copyright laws being such that there are even occasions where I am *not* allowed to reproduce the artwork.

Alex

[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited January 24, 2003).]