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Originally Posted by kennyc
... you'll find different people have different opinions on what theft is.
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The point I was trying to make is that theft, like obtaining goods by deception, is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of law. In law, both are illegal. Thus, someone who justifies "workarounds" - or, to put it in legal terms, obtaining goods by deception, cannot coherently condemn downloading stuff from darknet on the grounds that it is illegal since, when it suits their purpose they are willing to justify acting illegally. There may, of course, be other, moral grounds, for condemning downloading stuff from darknet, whilst advocating using "workarounds". There is a difference between legality and morality - sometimes the moral thing to do is to act illegally - though I'm not suggesting that that holds in this case.