Over here in the UK, the police don't deal with it; it's dealt with by Trading Standards.
The guy with access to a pirate network wouldn't have got jailed over here either. They'd just take all his stuff and shred it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />. They're noit really bothered about crap like that, they wan't the people who are SELLING or TRADING in pirate software.
The guy with access to that network isn't hurting companies, let's face it, he isn't going to buy $15,000 worth of software (or whatever amount he had). It's the ones who profit from it that hurt the Dev/Pub and I'm sure that Starforce isn't a problem, as the paying public will put a stop to that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />
