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So many downvotes, and yet, I never said I was in favor of the practice. It's just the way the laws work. You can work to get them changed or you can ignore them, but if you ignore them, don't cry on the Internet that you got your stuff taken down.


Plenty of civil disobedience is of the form of ignore bad laws and complain loudly when they are enforced.

This is without passing comment on whether copyright infringement is terrorism or freedom fighting.




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