Are you justifying sin by doing this?
If this sounds hostile to anyone, I don't mean any of that to whoever reads this.
Christians often insist copyright law, even people who agree it's far from clean, must be followed no matter what because the Bible says God wants us to follow the law of the land, that governments still enforce order and you're disobeying God, in effect, because He ordains them and this law doesn't forbid us following His will. On the principle behind this, i would agree. However...
You positively are NOT honoring God if you insist these laws have to be followed as a moral command.
Think about it, these companies insist you don't own something you bought with your own hard earned money, and do in fact steal it back(a form of fraud/scamming that anyone in their right mind would be outraged by with and rightly see as criminal behavior that cannot be justified or let slide with anything that's not media and say you shouldn't let yourself be stolen from/tell others they should let it happen), and justify it by "you agreed", "It's our legal right to use our products in such a way, we put so much work into it and made an IP for it after all!" Now I'm not saying take something currently being paid for, obviously that's wrong regardless, if only because the creators get their paycheck off of sales, but insisting God orders us to see torrenting something they've abandoned and have no interest in using anymore as a moral violation because "they technically still own it, and we must follow the law of the land!", is basically just justifying their sin, and in the name of God as well! Worse, it effectively does, in fact, insist you violate the principle of "only disobey laws that forbid you from what God says/order something morally wrong".
They're telling people, who see how hypocritical this all is, and how much they clearly see this as justifying an exception to something being a scam and being stolen from, that THEY'RE hypocrites because "God says render unto Ceaser what is his, end of story". They are not only projecting(lying to yourself and others), but engaging in the kind of hypocrisy Paul and Jesus would rebuke because you approve of, and endorse the sin of a group rendering unto themselves what is not theirs by any reasonable standard, insist they can have just about any standard with things they no longer will even use, or their currently used things, no matter how hypocritical they are, and tell people to let themselves be stolen from and obey this predatory behavior without question. In effect, they are committing the same sin these corporations do in denying they're subject to the basic morality of not trying to convince people some vile act of criminal behavior, done in the same way and without any nuance as it would be without being legal, must be obeyed because some fat cat lobbys for a bill that says it's magically not that. It is NOT a "rendering unto Ceaser" issue because as I said, in literally any other context this behavior would be seen as wholy criminal, and seen as there being no way to justify it, much less make excuses as for why you shouldn't speak up against it. Yet somehow the mere idea of "Intellectual Property"(which has only existed as a concept for a few hundred years, if you really want to argue the Bible supporting it) hand waves this away.
It doesn't really matter if they don't approve of said behavior or say "if you don't like these laws, work to change them" at that point, they are willfully denying the reality of the situation, and more or less shouting at others to do the same, gaslighting them into believing they're decieving themselves for not. There are alot of times when we do have to obey the law even if we disagree. That ends when you have to be a hypocrite and deciever youself to do so. I suggest you think on why you do this, if you do.
If this sounds hostile to anyone, I don't mean any of that to whoever reads this.
Christians often insist copyright law, even people who agree it's far from clean, must be followed no matter what because the Bible says God wants us to follow the law of the land, that governments still enforce order and you're disobeying God, in effect, because He ordains them and this law doesn't forbid us following His will. On the principle behind this, i would agree. However...
You positively are NOT honoring God if you insist these laws have to be followed as a moral command.
Think about it, these companies insist you don't own something you bought with your own hard earned money, and do in fact steal it back(a form of fraud/scamming that anyone in their right mind would be outraged by with and rightly see as criminal behavior that cannot be justified or let slide with anything that's not media and say you shouldn't let yourself be stolen from/tell others they should let it happen), and justify it by "you agreed", "It's our legal right to use our products in such a way, we put so much work into it and made an IP for it after all!" Now I'm not saying take something currently being paid for, obviously that's wrong regardless, if only because the creators get their paycheck off of sales, but insisting God orders us to see torrenting something they've abandoned and have no interest in using anymore as a moral violation because "they technically still own it, and we must follow the law of the land!", is basically just justifying their sin, and in the name of God as well! Worse, it effectively does, in fact, insist you violate the principle of "only disobey laws that forbid you from what God says/order something morally wrong".
They're telling people, who see how hypocritical this all is, and how much they clearly see this as justifying an exception to something being a scam and being stolen from, that THEY'RE hypocrites because "God says render unto Ceaser what is his, end of story". They are not only projecting(lying to yourself and others), but engaging in the kind of hypocrisy Paul and Jesus would rebuke because you approve of, and endorse the sin of a group rendering unto themselves what is not theirs by any reasonable standard, insist they can have just about any standard with things they no longer will even use, or their currently used things, no matter how hypocritical they are, and tell people to let themselves be stolen from and obey this predatory behavior without question. In effect, they are committing the same sin these corporations do in denying they're subject to the basic morality of not trying to convince people some vile act of criminal behavior, done in the same way and without any nuance as it would be without being legal, must be obeyed because some fat cat lobbys for a bill that says it's magically not that. It is NOT a "rendering unto Ceaser" issue because as I said, in literally any other context this behavior would be seen as wholy criminal, and seen as there being no way to justify it, much less make excuses as for why you shouldn't speak up against it. Yet somehow the mere idea of "Intellectual Property"(which has only existed as a concept for a few hundred years, if you really want to argue the Bible supporting it) hand waves this away.
It doesn't really matter if they don't approve of said behavior or say "if you don't like these laws, work to change them" at that point, they are willfully denying the reality of the situation, and more or less shouting at others to do the same, gaslighting them into believing they're decieving themselves for not. There are alot of times when we do have to obey the law even if we disagree. That ends when you have to be a hypocrite and deciever youself to do so. I suggest you think on why you do this, if you do.
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