Your analogy is perfect... for showing why this is wrong. The "shooting back" solution just ends up with a bunch of people injured (likely including random bys

Your analogy is perfect... for showing why this is wrong. The "shooting back" solution just ends up with a bunch of people injured (likely including random bystanders). The better solution is to get the shooting to stop entirely. We don't need to find a new interpretation of copyright law to attack the cop, we need to remove the dysfunctional copyright system that started this. Or in your metaphor, I want no-one to get shot rather than wanting to shoot back.