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Originally Posted by tompe
That was a very strange question then. Why do you believe that people need to think that they deserve thing to take them? I really could not guess that what you asked was simply why people broke the law. The question was not at all formulated in that way.
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Perhaps it's just the way my brain formulates questions.
I was pretty much typing "off the top of my head" which in many instances, only makes sense to me.
As I read further after my last post, posters are thinking that people who feel that pirating a copy of something is illegal is based on morality. I have tried to leave the question of morality out of my posts by staying as close to what I know of the laws that are on the books here in the US. The funny thing is, many of our laws are based on moral principles. Trying to separate the two seems like an exercise in futility to me.
By the way, as to the whole Judge Dredd thing; there are plenty of laws here in the US that are out and out senseless and many that need refining and clarifying. The gray areas in our Judicial system are huge and far beyond my simple self. However, ignoring a law simply because you disagree with it for moral, ethical, or any reason is still breaking the law. It happens, sometimes for a good reason and when it does in those instances that action causes changes in the law. Perhaps that will happen here.