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If you are using an unauthorized copy then you haven't agreed to that. You haven't committed that unethical act. But you are still&hellip; you are condemned to living underground. And, you are still unable to get the source code, so you can't tell for certain what those programs do. And they might in fact be carrying out surveillance. And I was told that in Brazil, the use of unauthorized copies was in fact used as an excuse to imprison the activists of the landless rural workers movement, which has since switched to free software to escape from this danger. And they indeed could not afford the authorized copies of software. So, these things are not lined up directly on a straight line, but there is an increasing parallel between them, an increasing relationship.