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Well-put, Zoomba. The anti-piracy witchhunts and the general tone of the movement recalls McCarthy's paranoiac crusades and prohibition-era panicking all at once. It's knee-jerk policymaking and it'll die down eventually. The use of excessive penalties for white-collar crimes is a scare tactic, and a damned good one. It works, it's leverage, crowd control. Take ten random transgressors and put them up against a wall and shoot them, tell you y