No matter how much some people want to rationalize it, claims that “CDs cost too much” or rants that “big corporations do not market sufficiently interesting music” do not make downloading copyrighted music without paying for it any less illegal or unethical…
I’ve done it, you’ve done it, and millions of other people have done it. And I agree that CDs cost too much and that major corporations do not market sufficiently interesting music. But let’s not delude ourselves into thinking we have the moral high ground here…
No one would really suggest that the fact that Safeway charges too much for ground beef and does not carry my favorite cereal would not be sufficient justification for my decision to steal a few cans of strained beets, now would they?
Not, of course, that I’d steal strained beets even if I was starving to death (in which case it still wouldn’t be justified)…