Its this kind of thinking that is outright wrong. You are not entitled to someone else's work! Even if you have the skills to circumvent their pay scheme. It is just plain wrong and immoral. Do you think people are entitled to a carpenters work? A plumbers? Most people don't have those skills either? This type of mind set is whats going wrong in the world. The amount of money someone is making has NOTHING to do with you. You have the freedom to NOT use his product. You do NOT have the right to use his product without compensating him in the way he requires for his work. No matter how much he wants to charge. If you don't think the product is worth the 2% fee then don't use it. There are many alternatives as people have pointed out. Its ridiculous for people to justify their wrong doing with "well he makes enough so I can steal his shit".
I don't understand this at all but if you have the skills to use the software without paying I have no problem with that - Claymore is already making way more than is really reasonable from people who don't have those skills.
Your analogies are pretty sketchy. Of course if I need a plumber's or carpenter's particular skills to get something done or fixed I would pay. And I use miners with fees on them and
DON'T circumvent their fee payment mechanism. I just meant that if you a smart enough to know a way to get something for free that other people have to pay for then more power to you. That is called a competitive advantage. It appears in evolution all the time.
You could even say it's somewhat like what Claymore is doing - he doesn't actually do any mining, he gets other people to do the mining and takes a small percentage. He was smart enough to get something for free (hash power) that other people have to pay for.
Software just isn't the same thing as the traditiional notions of "goods and services" because if you are smart enough you can change it to suit your own usage scenario. Using your analogy I would have to be able to call a plumber and somehow brainwash him/her into doing work for me for free. Maybe if I was charismatic or intimidating or I could hypnotise people that would be possible - but it isn't.
If Claymore were smart enough (or it made enough difference to him to be worth it) maybe he could write his miner in a way which would stop people from being able to circumvent his fees, but then someone would always find a way around it. That's just the world we live in. People who don't know enough have to pay and people who do know enough do it their way - to suit themselves. Information wants to be free.