>  The music industry has succeeded in creating a world where a 7yo girl
> downloading one piece of music from the internet is considered a bigger
> crime than a company using a piece of utility software illegally to make
> money.

It's not the music industry's fault that the software industry does not go 
after illegal software as vigorously.  There's nothing stopping Microsoft or 
similar other software giants trying to take the same route as the music 
industry.  I wonder why they don't?

>  Where is the corproration that protects *my* rights as a professional
> programmer? That hunts people who copy my software without paying the
> proper price, who sues them and then gives me the money I deserve?

I guess you could work for a "real" industry and then you'd have the proper 
legal support :-)

>  Nowhere, because the music industry does not consider software piracy
> to be even nearly as bad as music piracy.

Why on Earth should the music industry care about the software industry?

>  So what if someone's song is copied? He can go and get a real job like
> anyone else.

Same could be said for computer games and their programmers...

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