[stse]

If you really want to know peoples motivation for downloading copyrighted material, or wanting copyright reform, there are countless of resources on the Internet and elsewhere. This isn't the '80s. Piracy has been common place for at least a decade now. There just isn't any reason nowadays not to know about piracy, even if you don't support it, other than ignorance.

[nitrogen]

This isn't the '80s...

Well, I think piracy was common in the 1980s too. I was given a box full of floppy clones of Atari cartridges when I was in elementary school. Not to mention people swapping mix tapes, making wax records, ...

[fnid2]

I know the motivation. They want it and they don't want to pay for it.