I cannot think of any occasion where I have broken laws. I’ve probably bent a few rules here and there (who hasn’t?), but in terms of breaking the law, to the point where I’d be arrested, and getting away with said law break, no, I haven’t broken the law, and therefore I haven’t been in a position to evade the law!
Does occasionally ending up in possession of boot-legged DVDs count? As a kid, we had boot-legged copies of Jurassic Park, and I first saw The Lion King thanks to a friend’s VHS copy, whilst the film was still at the cinema. Does that make me an accessory, or something? That’s the closest stuff I can think of to breaking the law.
Is that good? Is that boring? I don’t know.
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It depends on how you define “breaking the law.” If speeding is breaking the law, I have definitely broke the law (and have numerous tickets over the years to prove it). As a pastor, did I ever pocket cash payments for weddings/funerals and not claim them on my tax return, as required by law? Yep.
Have I ever done anything that could land me in jail? No. Though I did spend an evening sitting at the local jail until a friend of mine could post my bond for a traffic ticket. I was “arrested” for running a traffic light. I had an out of state license, so that forced the state trooper to take me to the police station.
You mention music, Back in the day, I owned several Squeezebox music devices—appliances that required music stored on a local server. I ripped all my cds and put them on the server. I also downloaded 50,000+ songs — an “illegal” act, to be sure. I stopped downloading music once ISPs got better at flagging violations of their terms of service. These days, I stream music. That said, I miss my music thief days; hours spent downloading, tagging, and ordering the files.
I’d forgotten about music downloads! I once had Limewire, which allowed me to download music as and when I wanted. It was illegal, though I didn’t appreciate that at the time, I saw ‘free music’, and went for it. Nowadays I use Spotify, albeit the free version, complete with annoying ads. That said, I discovered you can bypass the ads by forcing the app to close.
The relationship between states and law enforcement seems so confusing to me. I heard of a case where police in one state arrested someone on behalf of another state’s warrant, and because the warrant was issued from another state, the arresting officers couldn’t tell the defendant anything. I can’t believe they can arrest someone, and not know why.