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Old 05-08-2012, 12:32 PM   #341
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac View Post
That's far, far too simplistic. Sure, most people wouldn't contemplate committing murder or armed robbery, but my impression is that the vast majority of people under the age of, say, 35 do not regard piracy as wrong in anything but a highly abstracted way. Hence morality doesn't really enter into the equation in any meaningful way.
I don't know about 35, but certainly anyone under 20 would have grown up used to everything being free on the internet. With so many legitimate companies giving away free content in return for advertising revenue or social data they can sell to marketing companies, it's no surprise they would see nothing wrong with illegitimate companies doing the same thing. All they want is the content, what happens behind the scenes they don't care about.
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