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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, only dishonest people will. The fact that I can't buy something - either because I can't afford it, or it's not available where I live - does not make it acceptable for me to steal it. Not to me it doesn't, anyway.
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I think you confuse the moral concept of honesty with the legalistic idea of obeying the law. The two are not the same. People tend to obey laws they consider fair or righteous, they tend to ignore laws that they don't consider fair or righteous.
Pirating digital media is not stealing, at least not legally. It's violating the government granted monopoly to copy said media, a different legal violation all together.