[slowpoke]

>a serious crime

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Piracy is not a crime, much less a serious one. Murder, for example, is a serious crime. Please don't spout nonsense. Copyright infringement is a civil offense, not even a felony.

That is not to say that what Canonical did - if the accusations are justified - is ethically sound. But please don't spread the bullshit propaganda of certain industry representatives.

[nitrogen]

At least in the US, some forms of copyright infringement are crimes, as demonstrated by the Ninjavideo, TVshack, and Megaupload cases.

[nisse72]

At least in the case of Megaupload, that remains to be seen.