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No, your not the only one to feel that way. In fact, until you explicitly pointed it out I wouldn't have thought at all that what this guy was doing was the mo
by luke_s 14y ago
No, your not the only one to feel that way. In fact, until you explicitly pointed it out I wouldn't have thought at all that what this guy was doing was the moral equivalent of using a keygen to unlock features he has not paid for.
I think its the physicality of what he has done that causes this. To me it 'feels' like somebody modifying a thing he had bought to make it more useful - we do this all the time without any moral qualms, such as modifying a pair of jeans so they fit you better. Or you can pull apart cheap AA batteries to get more expensive watch batteries contained inside [1]. Nobody would dare claim such behaviour is immoral.
Yet somehow what this guy has done is skirting a moral boundary and using a keygen is widely considered 'wrong'.
1 - http://www.howtogeek.com/95390/hack-apart-a-12v-battery-for-free-watch-batteries-video/ http://www.howtogeek.com/95390/hack-apart-a-12v-battery-for-...