I saw that exchange. Your description of it is just not accurate.
...making his current claims that personal backups are somehow criminal...
What you call "his current claims" are in fact his attempts to argue the force of your position (although he has made it clear that position is not his own).
...instead of the Russian hackers all the more ludicrous.
"Instead of?"
I did not see on this thread where he claimed the OSX hack was NOT illegal but ripping DVDs is. I have seen where you claim he said that, several times. But your shrill repitition does not serve to make it any more true.
[Courtesy ping to Antirepublicrat.]
Here is his quote I linked above, which is merely one of them from the former thread, it's quite clear he is now attempting to claim a lesser offense somehow IS actually criminal, without subjecting it to his own previous requirements for criminal.
What you call "his current claims" are in fact his attempts to argue the force of your position
My position is obvious, he needs to provide equal evidence that personal backups of one's own media is more "criminal" than distributing cracks to the entire world. I've shown case history and threatening letters that distributing cracks is more criminal, yet he's called that "BS" without having anything equivalent of his own.
I did not see on this thread where he claimed the OSX hack was NOT illegal
You're lost again. "Criminal" is the context, not "illegal". He brought the word up in post 45, and the overall context is he's been defending these hackers from Russia for almost a year now, insisting they weren't "criminal", even trotting out the "180 day rule for criminal prosecution", and claiming Apple's letter threatening "criminal" prosecution was quote "BS", all linked above. He clearly brought up the word in the one false context he thought he could pretend, that personal backups were equivalent to the actions of the Russian hackers, which he might even believe himself. But since there's no factual reason to believe that, he's had to resort to lying once again, something he's already admitted to knowingly doing before, including when he knowingly made up lies regarding the US Department of Defense, only to claim months later it was some sort of "trick" he was trying to play, to make up these lies about the US DoD on behalf of his Russian hackers, then claimed it was quote "fun", accused me of sex with goats and other psychotic babble. You can read more here, by all means please do.