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#124
I used to use pirate software, partly because living in a third world country it was difficult to get this software legitimately anyway, partly because it's just so damn easy! I now live in the UK and I haven't pirated software in a long time, and I mostly use free open source alternatives anyway. I do download music, but I don't really see it as pirating, because when I download something and I like it then I go and buy a legitimate copy at a record shop, and if I don't like it then I never listen to it again. I certainly wouldn't buy an album if I didn't know already whether I liked it.

I think that if DRM was less restrictive people would pirate less, because if it's more of a hassle to get something through legitimate means, then many people will naturally choose the easier/illegal method.

It's all very well to bring morality into it, but everyone builds their own morality, morality is not universal as many would have one believe. Also things are never black and white.