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Originally Posted by wgrimm
Well, putting a top-loading case onto a playstation is just about as easy as copying a cd. If you can use a screwdriver, you can replace the cover. a 6-year-old can do it.
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Yes, I completely accept that what you say is true, but the issue is that you still have to take the conscious decision to do it.
One might similarly say that there's nothing technically difficult about stealing cars - 10 year olds can (and do) do it. The fact that it's not difficult to do doesn't mean that everyone goes around doing it; you have to make a deliberate decision to do it, knowing full well that you're breaking the law by doing so.
The fundamental problem, as I've said before, is that stealing intellectual property (computer software, CDs, DVDs, etc) appears to have somehow become "socially acceptable", even "admired" perhaps, among at least a portion of the younger generation today. When I was a kid, me and all my friends used to go out and buy "45" RPM records virtually every week, and use a significant part of our "pocket money" to do so. Many kids today seem to think that they have some "God-given right" to download for free whatever music they wish, rather than paying for it. And that's despite the fact that stores such as iTunes make it very easy to buy music legally, and it prices which are
far lower in real terms than we used to pay for our records back in the '70s.