Quote - Piracy is as old as the software industry.
The FBI is not gonna break down your door and confiscate your computer because you stole a pair of fairy wings.
I'm not advocating anything but any characterization of this discussion as anything but philosophical is a serious disconnect from reality.

These convictions are legally insignificant outside of Sweden.
The OP is guilty of fear mongering.

That's a brilliant post, and one of the few here on this subject which makes sense!

Except I disagree on one point: Piracy goes back long before software - they used to just call it theft. ;-)

And while there may be those who advocate the gub'ment stepping in and intruding on people to keep them honest, I still say it's a can of worms nobody really wants to open, no matter how "right" it may seem.

Yes, I'm looking at you, Lost In Space Dude - you don't really want to condone precedents of abridging privacy, which would necessarily reach far beyond the relatively insignificant Poser world, for all of us, not only the dishonest:

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They should be forced to keep records of who is sharing what. Plain and Simple.