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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Are you under the impression that morality/immorality only attaches to the legal notions of harm or theft?
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I think there's no denying that doing things like breaking DRM is breaking somebody's rules. But you are confusing breaking a rule with being immoral: those can be, but aren't always, the same thing. Some rules and laws are harmful, evil, or just plain trivial or dumb. Some of those should be disobeyed, resisted, or ignored. An easy example is people during WW II who hid Jews in their homes, against the Nazi rules.
You have to have a moral compass, and a sense of due proportion about these things. Note that there's a difference in degree between breaking a private company's rule, like DRM or walking shoe-less into a restaurant that has a "no shoes no service" sign, versus say, running a concentration camp.