There is often a disconnect. At the time when Apple were parading busted teenagers in order to promote iTunes, this friend was going "hmmmm, yes, but they DID break the law. So they kind of deserve it".

Yet the same person sends yearly compilation CDs to all his friends. One batch had a few songs that didn't play because of the iTunes protection. So he went out, brought CD's, ripped them and sent a new batch. At no point did he consider himself as having comitting a crime.