I honestly wonder how long will this stuff go on for. Say if for example every Internet user (millions - or billions now - of people) did some pirating. Does it make sense to throw every one of them in prison or change the laws to take into account the fact of life that pirating occurs, it doesn't really hurt people as much as some insist, and it simply can't be stopped or would cost trillions of dollars to stop completely? Pirating is nothing like committing murder, raping someone, or any 'real crimes' yet there are plenty of people doing more time for violating IP laws than others who murdered people. Does that make any sense at all?

I see taking someone's life away as a far greater crime than pirating possibly every single piece of IP the world has ever known.

Boy I can't wait till open source takes over and maybe makes everything free. Imagine open source fabrication of physical items, not just software.