“Why Should I Pay Someone Who I Never Met Nor Had Any Contact With Ever? He Never Made Any Deal With Me. Why Don’t You Pay Me For Your Stupid Text On Thanksgiving Day?”
Not to mention he doesn't think he's an idiot: just a jackass.
If he complains about piracy, all we have to do now is state on twitter:
"I Never Heard Of This Spike Lee,If He Has A Beef It's Not With Me.I Did Not Buy Him,Do Not Know Him.Cheap Trick Writing To Me.YO"
Looks like, to me, that unless Lee backs down, he'll be being mocked for quite some time to come :-)
The problem with piracy advocates is that they will seize any opportunity to justify piracy, and this is sadly no different. Too many people unfortunately see this as a black-and-white situation where you either support Spike Lee or support pirating his work.
By all means mock him, that's completely deserved.
It's more ironic than right.
P.S. I've voted you up, I agree with you.
As long as someone can get downvoted to -4 for making that very basic point on Hacker News, the point apparently still has to be made, even though it's a waste of time for people like you who see the nuance of it. :)