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There are, yes. But they tend to be bored by the little fish because there is no challenge and very little return - that is why the serious computer criminals use mass mail worms and phishing to collect credit card details rather than just visiting everyone's PC and carving through their pathetic little firewalls.This is where the problem is, though: There are three distinct categories of pirating. The first is the hardcore pirate, who will hack, crack and often sell the results for almost 100% profit, mass producing CDs, DVDs or MP3s on banks of machines.The second is 'casual' pirates, who upload their codes, songs, whatever to sharing sites, assuming that they are too small in the scheme of things to bother tracking down.Finally you have the people who give their codes or loan their CDs to one or two friends. They really are almost impossible to track down and the returns are usually simply not worth it. The cost far outweighs the return, plus you stir up masses of bad coverage and grace.My basic point is that, if we follow your model to fruition, there is no point in anyone ever chasing up breaches of copyright. Everyone should just write it off as an expert hacker invading some theoretical 16 year old's PC just to steal their new $30 FS addon.I find that amazingly unlikely to be true. I would put far more money on it being said theoretical 16 year old kid uploading his files to a P2P system or server because he thinks he won't get caught.Ian P.