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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Feel free to rationalize all you want by judging for yourself what is more or less harmful to other people - whether you are knowledgeable enough to do so or not. But my recommendation is that people consider taking the high road and simply avoid the potential harm altogether. It doesn't cost much and keeps everyone out of trouble.  |
The high road being to avoid Demonoid and all its ilk simply because there are crimes being committed there?
I suppose you have a difficult time visiting cities. . .or towns. . .or neighbor's houses then, do you not?
I'm not saying "it's not that bad, so maybe we should only download a LITTLE bit of illegal stuff. Or maybe just the quasi-legal gray area stuff." The high road that makes sense to travel is the one where you only download stuff you're sure is legal. You can do that perfectly fine with Demonoid, and every other tracker site on the web.
EDIT: Also, you're completely right in that it's not for us to decide what it's ok to steal. The law doesn't care. The owner of the content sets the rules. You can't argue however, that a crime which helps the victim (making an assumption that it does, which your post did for this particular argument) is really that bad, or upsetting to the average person.