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Originally Posted by HarryT
Saying "piracy is necessary", though, clearly implies that someone has a "need" to watch a TV show. That's what I can't agree with: nobody "needs" to watch a particular TV show. Merely "wanting" to watch it doesn't give the right to simply take it (IMHO, of course).
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Indeed it doesn't. But only in a world of Platonic ideals would that be an absolute barrier. We do not live in such a world, and in practice such things are always weighed between perceived damages of the act to others, the strength of the want/'need' and the perception of the personal consequences of the act.
Only the physical laws of nature are truly absolute; all others are, in the end, only guidelines.