This is the crux fo the problem. Laws work when there is high amounts of compliance, i.e everyone agrees with the law. It is only very few who break a good law. This works for murder and most other laws. Now what happens when a law is put in place that most people are happy to break rather than comply with. Is it a valid law any more. This may be more of a philosophical discussion that a legal one, as most legal systems don't have a method of dealing with bogus laws. The US maybe with laws having to comply with the constitution.Andy Chalk said:Generally speaking, most people conform to the dictates of the law because the law proscribes bad behavior: don't kill, don't steal, don't set stuff on fire if it doesn't belong to you, that sort of thing. But the effort to lump file-sharing into the "thou shalt not" pile through the imposition of new laws and harsh criminal penalties is proving to be a tougher sell, particularly among younger people.
Anyway this is the whole problem with Piracy Law. It is something the media industry wanted more that the average man on the street, hence their is not as much compliance as you would expect with other generally agreed with laws.
Any law scholars around to comment on what makes a law a good law?