The war is on and we are losing. Yesterday a 56 year old bricky from Watford called my in panic. His old XP laptop was literally taken as hostage asking to call some paid phone number to unlock computer back again.
My point, since you missed it, is the instrumenting a "war on warez" in the style of "war on drugs" or "war on terror" is a joke, and should be disregarded as just the talking point of someone with a different idea trying to sell you something.