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Re:Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy by sophacles on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:58PM (#3486663)
Now if people believe that anyone should be allowed to set up a site, fill it with full length DVD rips,and then charge $10 a month for access then no wrong has been committed. But I think most right-minded people would say that is wrong - otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Just not true. I don't think there is anything wrong with videotaping police going about their business (without breaking any other laws, hindering them at their job, and such), but you WILL NOT find me doing it in my home state (Illinois) due to such actions being zealously prosecuted felonies. Many other people agree with me here. A cost/benefit analysis making me choose not to do an action is much different than me thinking that action is wrong.

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Re:Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy by randallsquared on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:09PM (#3487050)
I believe AlexMuir's implication was that things which are illegal are automatically wrong, since it's obvious that HN, in particular, has lots of users who don't believe filesharing is wrong.
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Re:Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy by Zakharov on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:55PM (#3487553)
I can't speak for Alex, but I'm quite sure that wasn't his implication. He was stating that knowingly distributing pirated content for profit was wrong.
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