Thank You for your honesty in the revelations of the past week,TFC/ED and 1C must protect thier property and livelihood for themselves and thier employes world wide,and you're right on target with the fact that ED has been very open and considerate with the development of BS,
The Piracy issue does not surprise me at all,The rules of supply and demand are simple,people will do what they deem necessary leagally or otherwise to obtain sought after product[DOES NOT MAKE PIRACY{STEALING}RIGHT] it's just basicly human nature.
That being said I believe some of the forum members were caught in the hype of a sim release that's been in development and publized for nearly 4yrs,with money in hand, willing to purchase the product leagally,being told they would be able to do so,and then being denied while looking at screenshots from across the world they were like "crack addicts"looking for a fix,again this doesn't make stealing someone else's merchandise just, supply and demand.
I think a Global release would have been the smart PR as well as anti-theft move,but now unfortunately it is what it is........again ED/Evil/Wags thank you very much for your openess in this matter,I look forward to the Demo/Western release when made available.