I wish people would stop bringing up file-sharing in the privacy debate. It's a terrible example, for the simple reason that a lot of people <i>are</i> breaking the law and hiding behind legal technicalities to get away with it, and the law itself is <i>not</i> self-evidently unreasonable in providing the concept of copyright.<p>Yes, there have been miscarriages of justice, and there have been abuses of the legal system (particularly in the US, which in my studious and considered opinion has a dumb legal system that encourages such actions by the big boys with vast legal warchests).  Of course these things are bad and legal systems that allow them would be better if they had stronger safeguards to protect the innocent.<p>But if you look at the big picture, there are a lot of people (mostly young ones) growing up with this unhealthy attitude that anything you can physically do is OK and you can take what you want for free because you'll get away with it. Shielding those people from being held accountable, on a pretense of defending privacy, is not going to make society any more enlightened, it's just going to raise a generation of people who don't think about anyone but themselves.