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Come on, sure you can produce historical outliers, meanwhile, the vast majority of every person reading this has stolen far, far, far, far more than 24 songs worth of software and media.

It's absolutely absurd that you would ignore the reality on the ground for hundreds of millions to pretend that the ultra-rare exception is somehow the rule.

Be honest: have you stolen ANYTHING online ever? Have you ever been caught?




I have infringed on copyright, and I have gotten two warnings over it, which were enough to get me to stop doing so on my home connection.




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