User blog comment:SubAqua/Freedom is the right of all Sentient internet Users!!!/@comment-68-20120115191803

Freedom is a right. Theft is not. Copyright violations are a form of theft. Look how unhappy some people here got when they found out that people had taken wikia content and published and sold it (and that's permitted with proper attribution and licensing according to the wikia licensing).

I'm not saying that these laws are well written. But, they wouldn't even be necessary if intellectual property rights were being respected most of the time on the Internet.