My point was that the law is out-of-sync with the needs of society, and has come to serve only the interests of an anachronistic industry that has long been obs

My point was that the law is out-of-sync with the needs of society, and has come to serve only the interests of an anachronistic industry that has long been obsolete. Breaking bad laws to bring attention to them -- and hopefully to get our representatives to fix things -- is a civic duty, a form of civil disobedience without which we would never move forward.