Originally Posted by minusonebit

Cops should not be doing anything to enforce copyright laws. The copyright holders - at their own expense - should be doing it. To do otherwise is a form of corporate welfare. As long as programs, content and movies cost money, there will be ways to steal them and people stealing them. Right now torrents are all the rage. Before that it was IM. Before that it was Fserve and IRC. Before that it was FTP. Before that it was media/license code swapping. Before that, well, you get the point. The game will change, but the objective and the outcome will always be the same.