[BulgarianIdiot]

Yeah the cockroach analogy is kinda bad. A more apt analogy would be that you can either let rodents help themselves to your food supplies on their own terms, or you can set up traps with a little bit of cheese on them.

The traps with little bit of cheese on them here being offering hackers a viable low-stress way to earn income and the respect of society for doing ethical work, which they'll prefer over the high-risk, despite higher-gain, illegal activity they'd contemplate and perpetrate otherwise.

Similar mechanics in many ecosystems. Carrot and stick work best together.

[namaria]

I think current practices would be better described in ecosystem terms as: "If a mammal is eating your food, you can adopt a bigger one to prey on them so you share a little bit of food on your own terms instead of compromising the whole community's supply".