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Originally Posted by HarryT
Presumably, however, the people who engage it such activities do regard it as "OK" (at least according to their personal code of ethics) or they wouldn't do it.
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Sure, whoever do it they regard it as OK. But indastry is not affected. It doesn't know about the people now - when they can download the content, they would know about the people tomorrow if it were impossible to download the content.
The same about the train (although the comparison is not 100% proper - the train actually carries the body - additional weight thus tear and wear applies directly). The train would run regardless of existance of people who are trying to sneak on it and travels without a ticket because whether this group exists or not, another group of people who obey the law (either because they are honest or because they are afraid to be caught) would exist regardless of a "sneaky group".
However, there is one a very important thing. If railway service when attempting to reinforce the law would harm/cause major inconvenience to people who are paying for the service today and would virtually do no harm to the "sneaky group", then railway service would face an increase of numbers of "sneaky group" and decrease in the group of people who pay for the service. People who pay would get angry and frustrated and some of them would "cease" being honest.
That's what DRM is doing today to ebook market.