[pyre]

I might find your argument somewhat valid if RMS was able to pressure the Swedes to execute a raid against a proprietary software company, and send people off to serve prison sentences.

  > When you use open source in a proprietary app,
  > the original is still in tact

One thing that you're completely missing here is that by including it in a proprietary app without attribution, you are implicitly claiming that the work is your own. When was the last time that a college student downloading an mp3 claimed that he was artist that created the track?

GPL violations and media piracy only share copyright as a common thread, but copyright isn't the entire picture.