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Originally Posted by ApK
Children's EVERYTHING is supposed to go through a parental filter. Children ARE dependent. That's pretty much the definition of the parent/child relationship, and the parent's main job.
The differences are in what is filtered and how that filtering is applied.
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As they become teenagers, less and less of their activities go through the parental filter. They choose their own clothes. They choose their own meals. They make friends with people who match their interests. All of these are subject to some level of parental review, but the child knows that, eventually, s/he'll be making these decisions entirely alone.
If "ebooks" remain something that requires direct parental intervention every time (to authorize credit card payments), it'll be something they think of as childish. If they have to choose between "parental intervention and/or review version" from the legit stores, and "autonomous choice version" from the torrent sites... they may well pick the torrents.
And if their parents have encouraged them to violate the TOS for years anyway, they may not see anything at all wrong with that.