You can&#x27;t say that it was wilful civil disobedience and then say that he went about it the wrong way, you contradict yourself as that&#x27;s kind of the definition of civil disobedience.<p>If you&#x27;re saying that he ought not to been civilly disobedient then that&#x27;s a different matter but what he did makes him a sort of modern-day hero. That he took his own life makes him a martyr in a weird kind of way. I know that hero and martyr are emotive words but I think I nearly feel that way about all this.<p>And it&#x27;s not theft, it&#x27;s copyright infringement. Repeat after me: you can&#x27;t steal bits and bytes, only copy them, and copying is infringement, not theft.