Your opinions by themselves are irrelevant. I care <i>why</i> I should agree with you. Convince me. Give it a try. That&#x27;s the point of HN. If I just wanted to hear what strangers think without any discussion of the larger issues, I&#x27;d be on reddit.<p>So NZ has laws and treaties. Great. Should they? What&#x27;s the tradeoff? Is the prosecution of someone who is clearly guilty allowing a greater evil to occur? Is the copyright system and corporate influence of governments a problem?<p>I would have loved to hear the answers to any of these questions, but what I got was essentially &quot;he is a criminal&quot; and &quot;laws shouldn&#x27;t be broken&quot;. Sure.