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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am a firm believer in the need for copyright laws, but I am absolutely not a believer in preventing people from format-shifting, for their own personal use, content that they've legitimately bought. However, the other side of the coin is that I am a firm advocate of very severe punishment for those who upload such material to the internet illegally. "Trust" has to work both ways: publishers should trust customers to use the content they buy in a responsible manner, but those who abuse that trust should be severely punished.
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I do not trust people that respect ridiculous laws. I think it is a contradiction to say that a law is ridiculous and then telling people they should respect the law. And you are coming across as doing that (which migh be careless reading of what you are writing).