I don't see an effective argument here for breaking criminal law.

Religious people are doubly damned: thou shalt not steal, right?

Yeah. Monopolies are bad. They were bad 10 years ago and they never stopped being bad. But at best the "steal from monopolies because they're evil" is vigilantism, and still a crime.

We do not get to pick and choose the laws we follow. If we could, then we give the monopolies every justification to keep going, and effectively some dirt bag thief subjugates all our rights.

This is not the way.