Recently there was a situation of Sysinternals suing Best Buy for using unlicensed copies of their software. I feel like siding with Sysinternals but this feeling prompts me, providing new fodder with which to examine, to bring into focus, my values in this area on the basis of the fact that I don't really believe in intellectual property.
It's not a matter of whether or not it's illegal, but a matter of who we want to come ahead in the war of ideas and where we want to be. The law has fallen from a statement of ethical principals to become no more than a tool in which to fight this war. When you don't know the whole truth, sometimes it is necessary to perpetuate a smaller lie in order to freeze out a larger one.