"A bad merchant could still go after people, but the effort required might dissuade them. " By bad I mean one of the few merchants mentioned in the preceding post that use bullying, etc. By no means is this indicative that a merchant who goes after warezers of their product is bad... It's not. Futile, probably, but fully within their rights and not bad by default. Of course, if aforementioned imaginary warez-hunter-killer merchant were to go after the aforementioned imaginary evil warez nastard with illegally obtained information, then they would also be classified ostensibly as "bad".