I am horrified that anyone over 16 would say that. Straight-up plagiarism like that is fairly easy to understand.

Interesting that you set an age limit on it. I went to a very interesting seminar recently, where the speaker mentioned that his 10-year old son sees absolutely nothing unethical or illegal about downloading a pirated version of a movie from the internet.

Again, I explained above why I think this happens online, but I'm not condoning the behavior at all.