[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

C'mon now. Your analogy doesn't work because your basis is wrong: Just because a signal is broadcast on the space-time continuum (I like that phrase!) doesn't mean it's public property. By that logic, if you borrow a book from a library you could scan it into your computer and publish it as your own work. After all, it's in the public domain -- on your property as well.

Yours is a really bad analogy. It isn't even remotely similar. Using books as an analogy and the logic of current law, I would be prohibited from reading books that fall from the sky and land in my yard.

[glennaro]

I did not make an analogy; rather, I was commenting on the fallacy of another's poor analogy.

Enough of this banter. From both a legal and, more importantly, moral perspective, if one cannot see that compromising security and software in order to receive commercial programming without paying for it is theft, then there is nothing I can say beyond what I have posted on this thread to help that person achieve understanding of their malfeasance.