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This is precisely exactly like saying that if in xyzland rape with impunity becomes rampant, "Looks like free enterprise has just introduced a rape tax on not having brothers."

To be blunt, if you think like this and make legal arguments like this, you don't understand western civilization and should go and think for a while about all of society.

Unless of course you're kidding and being cynical.

It's 2015: computing is part of society, and computing free from attacks is little different from walking about in public unharmed. It takes massive contortions of perception to feel otherwise. Everyone is online! (Just as everyone goes out now and then.)

Ransomware is almost literally still just ransom.