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Originally Posted by wallcraft
However, this is one of the cases where established laws go against what many people think is fair.
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Laws aren't supposed to follow "what many people think is fair." "Many people" often don't know the full facts, and therefore can't make a "fair" judgment. So laws are created to be
just.
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Or in other words, the whole basis of copyright law is to balance the rights of creators with the the good of civilization as a whole.
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Yes... but this doesn't somehow give individuals rights to ignore copyright laws because it is personally inconvenient, and that is the case here (and, in truth, in most copyright arguments).
If laws are unjust, they should be changed. But claiming a law is unjust is not a good enough reason to just ignore or violate it at will.