Civil disobedience is a symbolic or ritual violation of the law, rather than a rejection of the system as a whole. The United States and many other countries have a tradition of recognizing certain acts of disobedience of the law as morally justified. Acts of civil disobedience are usually justified on the grounds that it would be immoral to obey such laws. Some of the thresholds you would have to cross before civil disobedience would be appropriate would be that you would have to demonstrate that the software property rights system is not just a bad system, but an unjust system and that compliance with these laws forces you to commit immoral acts or support unjust institutions. When an act of infringement is committed, such as copying PS without the permission of the copyright or patent owner, it is illegal and harms the PS owner in the sense that it deprives the owner of their rights legal to demand payment in exchange for use of the software. This situation can be likened to a denial of the right to vote in that, as a citizen of a country, you have the right to be active in society and participate in it as is your legal right. When someone is denied the right to vote, they are deprived of their legal right as a citizen to a