Not vidya but here's a white pill.
https://archive.is/rSoqC
Harvard Lawyers Don’t Think That Piracy is Theft, Research Finds
>To conduct this in-depth quantitative study, one of the researchers spent a year at Harvard, informally engaging with the International Masters of Law (LL.M.) cohorts. This program is highly competitive; it requires a law degree, top grades, and work experience as a lawyer.
>“Our study reveals that law professionals, with raised professional ethics standards and expectations toward lawabiding behavior, highly above average understanding of law, and higher than average socio-economic status, do not equate digital piracy with physical theft, and are generally very tolerant or even supportive of it.”
>Of the 50 lawyers who were interviewed, only three believed that downloading or streaming digital content from pirate sources is absolutely illegal and unacceptable. And even those three wouldn’t report their friends’ transgressions.
>“If I were to call police when someone watches pirated movies, I wouldn’t have any friends. [Interview 33]”
>“[I]f for any reason, there is a restriction. I think it’s fair for me to download illegally or use VPN to have access to the content. I don’t believe in geographical restrictions on the internet.” [Interview 16]
>“Two-hundred dollars [for an academic textbook] is absolutely crazy. If there was a choice that someone sells it pirate, I would buy the pirate.” [Interview 41].
>Movies and TV shows are also considered pure entertainment and downloading them for personal, usual single watch were not considered problematic. The slightly different point was often made about music. In this case, respondents were questioning whether a musician should receive remuneration for distribution of a recording, while they had other options to earn money by actually doing the work, for example, through organizing gigs and concerts. Some respondents also indicated that actors are overpaid, especially in Hollywood.