In addition to being a great book-on-tape reader and a hilarious comic actor, Stephen Fry is a technology nerd. And he gave a talk recently about how he illegally downloads material off the internet all the time.
He didn't say illegally downloading was completely ok, but that it's something everyone does, and the recording industry's tactics of suing its customers is stupid. People are downloading illegally because it's not easy for them to find what they want legally. When it's easy to buy what we want and the product is reasonably priced, people are mostly going to do the right thing.
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