The threat that Piratebay, Megaupload etc pose to commercial interests (copyright theft) is not that big a deal to me on the personal level (even though I recognize it as "wrong"), and I don't see where it is that much of an objective threat to the commercial sectors they're ripping off, either.

Where this gets more worrisome, is that when Congress etc watches us commit our talent & effort to building defenses to protect lawbreaking activities, sees us glamorizing & lionizing an aggressive anti-business deployment of the Internet to attack perfectly legal & ordinary commercial activity ... we are allowing & encouraging a serious threat to our own interests. Things we care about and are excited about, are being exposed to increasing risk.

Congress progressively gains greater power & ability to take steps to 'collar' the Internet, as the public watches these clever maneuvers - at our initiative - to enable Piratebay etc to continue engaging in lawbreaking. We lose public support. Citizens & voters steadily come to see the problem as rooted in the Internet, and even the Open Source culture, per se.

We look more & more like Occupy Zuccotti, with a haircut and underarm deodorant.

WordPress, and various communities built on the open & free Internet, should publicly speak out against the protection of outlaws. Otherwise, we are handing a ever more-menacing club to interests & powers, who will use it against us.