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You keep assuming that it’s far more important for government to protect the lawful rights of a musician not to have his/her music copied than it is for millions of perfectly lawful citizens to retain their rights of privacy.

Your statement only becomes truthful if you quote the other half of the argument.

And yet you believe it to be paranoia to assume that government can not always be trusted.

Go figure.

The Ifpi, MPAA, RIAA et al. aren’t the entertainment industry.

They are simply the ravenous horde of lawyers unleashed upon the unsuspecting public. If the actual entertainment industry were to adapt to piracy, the people at Ifpi/RIAA/MPAA are all out of a job.

And this is why they lobby not only washington but also the entertainment industry itself with FUD propaganda. Because if Hollywood and SONY back down, the Ifpi will vanish.

In order to leak an unreleased production what you have essentially done is first an act of intrusion or otherwise unlawfully obtaining information held as a secret. It’s a far cry from merely copying what has already been published.

True enough. What is leaked might not even be the final version the artist actually approves of. 

And that only concerns those who can actually be classified as “criminals” to start with, in the legal definition.

If we go by your own oft-stated assumption of “criminal” the odds suddenly shoot to one in ten million getting caught. You demonstrably have a somewhat wider definition than just the books of law.

If we add to those the people who are “criminals” in the eyes of the law but not in the eyes of the general public – filesharers, jaywalkers and people allowing their pets to mate within 1500 feet of a california restaurant, say…the number of “criminals” escaping justice escalates by an order of magnitude or more.

In short, the only criminals who do get caught are either the ones where society is quite willing to expend massive resources. Murderers, bank robbers and terrorists. Or the low-hanging fruit – like an odd hacker or two.

For the main majority of “Anonymous” and “Lulzsec” however, their operations are quite safe. Safer than, say, the risk of getting involved in an automobile accident and similar statistics.

So I for one can’t really subscribe to your vindictive guarantees that “criminals” will get caught. It is, quite simply so that for the crimes in which you have an interest, the rule is that they don’t. May I recommend – as usual – that you check your facts before spouting hollow dogma?