Doesn't matter what fancy lawyers you employ what rules you try and enforce or what government you cajole into getting tough. The fact remains that you've wasted 4.3 million on revenue protection!! Things aren't getting an better.

They just don't get it do they!! You can't stem the flow of ones and zeroes as long as there is software distributed via insecure medium, software distribution via the black market will continue. Most of the companies that are having their intellectual property protected by ESA are multibillion dollar companies floating on the stock market and paying large dividends to stock holders. Has anyone heard of a company that has been actually bankrupted because of piracy issues?

Bit Torrent isn't going away and Digital Download will only solve part of the problem. CD-Keys and other forms of DRM are a joke.. So from the perspective of the consumer, it's like leaving your front door open with a big sign over it saying "We're out! Please come in and help yourself" Let's face it, even if you locked up the internet so tightly that nobody could download anything without their ip address, name and location logged. Piracy would just go off net, like back in the day.

You can't beat "Free" ladies and gentlemen and your making it too easy!! Yet companies like the MPAA and ESA still try to scare us into submission. It works for a certain small percentage, but there are too many people download illicit material to make real difference, they can't prosecute or detect everyone, their resources aren't that widespread not matter how many Trojans are released in Cracks and ISO's. Makes no difference if they go for the user of the server host.. One site shuts down another opens and the whole comedy carries on. It would be interesting to see the ratio between those who get caught and prosecuted to those who slip through the net.