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potato_hamster said:
psychicscubadiver said:

Shrug. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. It's well and good if that assuages your conscience, but you still have something you have no right to own. Something that belongs to someone else.

There is actually two clearly defined legal differences between the two. It's actually not a matter of possessing copyrighted material. It's not illegal to own material that was acquired via copyright infringement, it's the copyright infringement itself that is the crime.

If you want to oversimplify something in your mind and be willfully ignoranty about it, that's your choice.

I'm aware of the legal distinction, but I don't let my opinions on what's morally correct be defined solely by the legal system. If you do, that's your choice.

And if you are the one 'making' a copy. You're still in violation of the law.

EDIT: 'ignoranty'?