Looks to me like we're slowly making "interference with a business model" either a crime or a civil tort. Consider: * The slow progress of patents from protec

Looks to me like we're slowly making "interference with a business model" either a crime or a civil tort. Consider: * The slow progress of patents from protector of innovation to anticompetitive weapon * The music industry's legal wins, i.e. "contributory copyright infringement" in some jurisdictions * DMCA, which in large part criminalizes the breaking of an EULA * US v. Lori Drew, where we actually convicted a person of a computer trespass felony for breaking an EULA * Psystar case, where the ruling was based on the DMCA and a legal fiction of how software works, instead of how it actually works The thing about all of these legal constructs is, the bits don't care. I'm not saying piracy or whatever is morally right or anything. But I am saying, as a practical matter, it is impossible to regulate this sort of thing, whether it's made illegal or no. The practice of making it illegal will not (much) reduce what actually happens. The business models are still dead, even if the competition is the black market.