Technology makes it easier to steal an artist’s property, so that makes it ok.
Everyone does it, so that makes it ok.
An honest person wouldn’t steal from someone else, would they?
“Technology makes it easier to steal an artist’s property, so that makes it ok.”
Nah, but technology makes the laws unenforceable. At that point, you can choose to pass new laws that you might be able to enforce, or throw up your hands and whine after nobody obeys the old ones anymore.
The industry has been operating for decades as if there was a third choice, of shoving the tech genie back in the bottle, but that is a choice that only exists in their imaginations.