'Same thing', hah. This was edited out, but I'm quoting it anyway:

> I should trot out all of the justifications here.

I'll start: personal use instead of profit. Certainly a difference, not convinced justification is required or even advisable.

Children are afforded more lenience in sane societies (before the law and in social contexts) because they are still developing and not as well socialized/experienced as adults. I assume most pro-piracy people support personal use and not commercial use of content.

We support copyright reform not piracy. The reason we do is because corporate giants have weaponized the system for their own ends and not for our useful promotion of the arts and sciences.

So.. I don't think it's appropriate for billion dollar companies to abuse copyrighted authored material for their own profit streams. They have the money. They can either pay or not use the material.

A child stole a candy bar from my shop, time to bankrupt his whole working class family!

^ sociopathic legalists really do think this way.

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