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Originally Posted by HarryT
I hope (but maybe I'm being naive in that hope) that most people are more honest than you suggest.
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And I don't think my suggestion implies that people are necessarily
being dishonest.
Barcey's examples of "clear copyright infringement"--as described--take no more or less food off of a creator's table than the loaning of physical media (without a backup copy) would. Nor would the deletion of the backup before "legally" loaning the physical media make food magically appear on their table.
Copyright infringement RE digital media simply does not
inherently imply the dishonesty and loss of income that you seem to want/need it to.
You break your country's DRM removal laws because you don't recognize the harm in doing so. You don't consider yourself "dishonest" because you trust yourself enough to uphold the "spirit" of the protection that DRM provides to rights-holders, if not the letter of it. Yet you deny the possibility that others could (and do) do the same RE copyright and digital media. That's hipocrisy.