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Originally Posted by 420
See post 63 to remember how the conversation started.
People will compare downloading a movie to stealing a tangible copy or buying a bootleg. They may conclude it isn't as bad. There isn't anything more to think about. |
I know exactly where this started.
In any event, personal justifications have nothing to do with law, therefore in that important regard, piracy and the infringement of copyrights is
not a grey area.
And as you've admirably demonstrated, when you originally said:
"this is a legitimate thought process of people that think piracy is acceptable"
there is (at least as far as you've been able to demonstrate) actually no thought process beyond "will I get caught". Your use of the word
process was a little ambitious methinks ;)
Philip Danks rationed that way too and he's doing fantastically right now. So did Hana Beshara, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrick Neij, Jammie Thomas-Rasset and scores of others that unless you're being willfuly stupid, courts of law have proven this time again to be a very flawed rational to harbor.
At best, piracy is ignorance of law and/or a simple lack of moral compass at the end of the day.