Soulman, I would like to commend you on your post. Great points with some morality to it as well. People, if these industries weren't around to produce, and make money off of, the movies and music we watch, you would have nothing to steal from them. Legally, ethically and morally, that's all you are doing is stealing from them. As soulman said, you might as well go into a store and steal the dvd or vhs off the shelf. I see nothing wrong with these industries trying to protect their investments. Cinema and Music industries don't invest 10's to 100's of millions of dollars in a project simply to see all their efforts pirated by the 14 yr old kid sitting behind his computer. Verging on a seperate subject, one of the biggest reasons our economy is taking a plummet is because noone wants to go out and contribute to it. We would all rather sit behind a computer and steal the goods 10 dolars at a time instead of going out and paying the 7 dollars for a movie. The extent that these industries are asking to go to protect their investments are a little extreme, I agree. However, anything short of locking up a couple million people for copyright infringement and piracy, what can these industries do? Everyone is always concerned about their "certain inalienable rights" as pointed out by the Bill of Rights. Someone is always looking for a way to say their civil liberties are being compromised. What about the rights of a corporation to make money off of the investments they make? What about the actor's or performer's rights to get paid for their services? At some point, people need to realize that there are things that are inately wrong. Stealing and cheating are two of those. Why should it be allowed to go on simply to protect the civil liberties of the the person commiting the crime. If you aren't stealing from these companies, you won't be at risk of being hacked. Even if you are hacked by them, what are they deleting? Their product which you have illegally. You steal something from a store and are caught with it, you have to give it back. There's no civil liberties infringement involved there. But since it's done from a computer, noone knows how to handle it. If you do the right thing, the right thing will be done to you.