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I think it's a fact that warez (or the concept, applied to whatever else) will always exist.  Warez isn't at all hard to get, especially with the wide-spread popularity of p2p programs and Hotline, and such.  Of course it's morally and legally wrong, but that doesn't stop the millions of people who still use it.  I think a lot of it is that they don't really view it as stealing, because it's just some program, not something like a couch, or a TV (tangable).  It's more like looking at a web page than it is like breaking into a store and taking a microwave to them, IMO.

Unfortuantely, the fact is that almost no one is prosecuted for having illegal software.  The big corporations don't have the time or money to spend chasing down 13-year-old kids downloading their software.  They try to go after people leaking it from their company, or other big companies with illegal software.  The day there's no more internet, will be the day warez declines.