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Originally Posted by afa
If you don't like the laws in Country X, then go live in Country Y.
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How can you even consider that reasonable? People can't just move to a different country as if they're moving across the street.
I absolutely choose which laws I will follow and so do you. Have you never jaywalked? Exceeded the speed limit? But that's not what I'm talking about, illegal does not mean immoral and breaking laws as a form of protest has a long history. If people are pissed off about copyright laws and drm and unskippable ads and decide to download then good, someone somewhere deserving may get screwed out of a little money, it happens.
From hippies chaining themselves to trees to protect spotted owls to Rosa Parks not moving to the back of the bus. Ghandi, Martin Luther King, anyone who's ever been arrested for sodomy or adultery, Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire. Whatever it is big or small people break the law for what they believe. Yes some of them are nutjobs by my standards but even then they see what they think is injustice and stand up and say no.
If you want to obey every law then I hope you never come across one that is not just inconvenient, not just a little unfair but plain offensive. Slavery is gone now at least in law, racial segregation took a lot of law breaking, sodomy laws were only overturned in 2003 in the US. In Saudi Arabia women can't drive would you tell them to just move to country Y?
What I'm trying to say is laws like the DMCA may not rise to that level with you, you might even approve of them but other people might feel different and if it matters that much to them then yes, break the law, strip drm, download if you don't know how, stick it to the man, if life+70 copyrights offend you download stuff that goes PD in life+50 countries or whatever.