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If the vendors pirate your money, it's only fair you pirate their content.

Isn't it time for a big lawsuit against some large ISPs (like Verizon) for allowing Sony to scam people like that? If there are 2 people scammed, Sony can get away with a warning, but if there is 3th - they should disconnect all Sony related servers from the internet. That should be fair.

The problem is that the long nose of the law only points in one direction.

When it comes to piracy the nose of the law isn't very long. Get a good VPN and don't worry about it.

No idea why people want to pay money to be scammed by these media companies who see you as a number in a spreadsheet and nothing more.

>Get a good VPN and don't worry about it.

The point is that one side can "legally" do that the other can not (in most countries). It's really not about the technical side of it, but the legal one.

The word "legal" simply means "the wish of those in power, written down on paper." There are few exceptions, but certainly not in the copyright law.

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