Sabot said:There are plenty of stories of violent crime and even murder and illegal copies of copyrighted material.
When I was out in Thailand a number of years back the main story of the day was a police shoot out caught between two rival gangs trying to steal one of the gangs cache of pirated software and drugs. On the streets of Thailand you can get more for the right software than drugs.
When Windows 7 comes out watch to see who is the first crew to distribute a cracked version will make allot of money.
So what about the 'free' downloads on torrents, well there is allot of reasons but the one that scares me the most is about infaltration. A torrent can be just a trojan for a piece of software that turns your machine into a bot. This bot can practically do anything to your machine. Bot machines can be bought and sold for various criminal activities that make perfectly untraceable crimes such as using your machine to perform credit card fraud.
So don't be naive and don't think your uptodate anti-virus will always protect you. The best protection is not to download stuff in the first place but like thats going to happen.
But what about just downloading keys? Hmmm, they just can't give you a key, it always comes in a 'key-gen' program ... again another trojan.
Sabot, any illegal activity can cause violent crime. This is not inherent in the activity but in the illegality. This is not to say that copying copyrighted works should by legalized, it is to say that the BSA lose some credibility by making these claims.
The chosen method of communication by the likes of the BSA, RIAA and MPAA is often eerily similiar to that of a common street thug.
Which is why that, although I agree with their basic goals, I'd prefer not to be associated with them. You know, the company you keep and all that.
