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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Here is where we disagree; I am not sure that even legally you are right, since from what cases I heard prosecuted they were for copyright violations or for DCMA breaking, not for theft. You may feel strongly that way, but again using loaded and most likely inaccurate legal words encourages extremism.
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You're right - "theft" is an incorrect term. Let's settle for "they are criminals" - that's nice and "generic"
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As mentioned many people here in the US are legally speaking tax cheats by not paying sales tax on online purchases, but even the tax enforcers and governors do not call them that since they know it leads nowhere, they try to change things to minimize the losses.
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I actually think that's even worse. Someone who downloads a book illegally is taking money away from one person. Someone who evades paying their taxes is taking money away from the entire community.
I'm surprised that the US can't come up with a system of handling sales tax at source. If the EU can do it in a community of 25 nations, each of which has its own completely separate legal system, tax system, language, etc, one wouldn't have thought it would be beyond the limits of human ingenuity to come up with a way of uniformly collecting sales taxes within a single country, would you?