Yes, but it depends...It's like shoplifting if you download let's say 15 songs and two dvd's... but there are people out there with 70000 songs, 350 games and 900 movies... and that is no shoplifting that has reached mafia dimensions and I hope that these people get what they deserve... the USA seem to be on a good way, as far as I know, here in Europe the war against internet piracy is slowly progressing...