Sometimes, you may need or want to provide information about yourself to a Web site in order to take advantage of an online service. The degree to which you can trust the Web site to observe your privacy concerns then becomes an issue. Currently, concerns about web sites' privacy practices are a major barrier to much potential Web interaction. It's amazing that it isn t more of a problem. Perhaps the most common form of piracy involves copying and distributing commercial software packages.
Internet piracy is a real problem, and does cause losses that can be counted in real dollars.
But any knee-jerk reaction that does not take into account the internet s unique history and topography is ill advised.