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Originally Posted by bhartman36
... The point I was making is that "some people" not thinking it is wrong is a meaningless standard. The whole reason we have a representative republic is that laws are based on the majority (whether it's the majority of citizens or representatives). The fact that "some people" think a law is wrong doesn't give anyone the right to flip the law the bird. And in the United States, we've been in agreement that intellectual property should be protected since ~ 1793.
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It isn't so black and white. The body of law is an evolving one. And the evolution is often effected through disobedience and challenges to existing law. This goes from Prohibition, to civil rights, to intellectual property.
When the law runs against common sense, it becomes widely ignored (think state sodomy laws.)
I'd say, some of the aspects of recent intellectual property legislation, do indeed run against common sense, and stifle innovation.