[SnakeDoctor]

>> Because I believe it’s an unjust law.

First, I fail to see how it is unjust to require you to pay for merchandise (including intellectual property). Second, we are not empowered to violate those laws that we disagree with.

>> Like slavery. So it’s a form of civil protest. Like throwing tea in the harbor.

Please spare me the high-and-mighty rationalization. You’re no Thomas Paine or Harriet Tubman. You’re a petty thief — stealing the fruit of other peoples’ labor without compensating them.

Fundamentally, you’re no different than the liberals that pass confiscatory taxes. You unilaterally put within the public domain the property of other people. Capitalist, my ass.

SnakeDoc

[exist]

Please spare me the high-and-mighty rationalization. You’re no Thomas Paine or Harriet Tubman. You’re a petty thief — stealing the fruit of other peoples’ labor without compensating them.

And Harriet Tubman is not Thomas Paine and Thomas Paine isn't Harriet Tubman. What is your point?

[exist]

First, I fail to see how it is unjust to require you to pay for merchandise (including intellectual property). Second, we are not empowered to violate those laws that we disagree with.

We have a long tradition of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws. This is an unjust law, and I am carrying out civil disobedience in the face of it.