That is a really poor comparison. Imagine you built a piece of software that had tens of thousands of man hours of industry specifications, templates, calculati

That is a really poor comparison. Imagine you built a piece of software that had tens of thousands of man hours of industry specifications, templates, calculations, symbol libraries, and regulatory compliance built in. Now imagine an american company was 'offshoring' their piracy to Chinese subcontractors who used that software illegally to produce intelligent CAD files (i.e. not just a CAD drawing, but bills of materials, specs, and calculation tables) that literally could not be produced to the same standards without that software. And then sold those files in the US market for major profit, without ever having payed for any licenses of your software or tools. I am all for open standards, and I don't really care about individual piracy. But a company should be held responsible for the ethical production of their products no matter if they subcontract the work or not.