Great find on Digg.... .The Essential Guide to Piracy. Not only about, but a semi-howto as well.
If it’s a digital file, you can pirate it. But the sake of my fingers and your eyes, I’m going to stick to the top three pirated filetypes: music, movies, and software. This is a guide on how to pirate properly with specific applications.
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As you probably guessed, piracy is illegal. Getting caught can land you some serious fines or even jail-time depending on the offense. Those of you in college should probably stay the hell away from piracy. I personally know about three people who have been caught downloading via Bit Torrent or P2P. The only safe way to pirate is to not do it at all.
While I would never pirate anything, (honest! no, really! hey, why are you laughin?!), I do understand both sides of the coin. How many say, Photoshop experts are there out there that started out by spending $600 and then learned the ins and outs of the software? A few I'm sure, but I'm also going to guess that a lot of the PS users started with a pirated copy of PS 5 or 6 that they found on some warez site or BBS and thought it was nifty keen, then kept at it and are now buying it legally. Ditto with a host of other software packages out there, with a questioning glance over to some of the larger software/OS makers who at one time made their stuff very easy to pirate and also very popular. I'm not sayin' the two are related, I'm just sayin'....
I'm glad that they included Usenet in there too, that great bastion of diverse pornography. alt.binaries.nazi.lesbian.midgets anyone?
Anyway, so yea, good read, go to it.