http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-air-force-cracks-software-carpet-bombs-dmca.html
The airforce hired a company to crack some softare from their HR department of which the license had expired and they could not come to a new agreement with the vendor. The vendor sued, but the judge ruled the airforce was immune from prosecution.
I wonder if these tantrems against Chinese patent violations will lose credibility?
Violence has nothing with which to cover itself except the lie, and the
lie has nothing to stand on other than violence. Any man who has once
acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander