Re:The Danger of E-Books
by mwcampbell on Friday October 16, 2015 @11:17AM
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On the other hand, if laws are to be effective without requiring excessive resources or undesirable technological measures (e.g. DRM) for enforcement, then breaking laws shouldn't be something we do lightly or merely for personal pleasure. Civil disobedience should probably be something that one does only after much soul searching -- something that keeps one up at night.
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You treat the law as if it was a whole body rather than a bunch of individual things.
Willfully choosing to ignore the speed limit has no impact on the rest of the law - that law is ignored because it is widely seen to be broken, inefficient, and nothing more than a vehicle for unjust profit.
Coincidentally, the same negative descriptors apply to copyright in 2015.
This is not D&D, we do not have character alignments. I am not giving up some imaginary karma and slighting the deity/concept of Justice and Good Order by choosing to ignore a subset of non-beneficial laws.