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The industries aren't forcing anyone to break the law. That's the main aspect of this manifesto that I have a problem with.
I imagine that many---if not most---people are stealing digital products because they can. Why pay for something when you can have it for free with only a minuscule risk of being caught and punished for it?
It might be easy for people to blame the "Big, Bad, Fat Cat Corporations" but what about the "Pirating Leechers"?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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