and it, and others like it, will continue to live forever. Before TPB, when I was in college, I used to hang out on #warez on EFNet's IRC servers... Before 1996, I used to dial in to BBS' that would host these. The tech doesn't matter when the problem is entirely ethical. Pirates, like porn peddlers, are the first to adapt and adopt new tech to perpetuate their ideology. No amount of tech, or even legal action is going to address issues of ethics.

With that said, how do you address it? Probably by making software more affordable for those who pirate it, wish to buy it but cannot. Offering low cost subscriptions, e.g. instead of exorbitant one time fees. I don't necessarily want to buy a game.. I dont play games that much anymore, but I wouldn't mind subscribing to a service that offered it for a month or two, get my jollies and then leave when I'm not using it.

So rather than try to defeat it - and ideas are notoriously hard to defeat... try to "compete" with it and pray that people's conscience kicks in at some point.

I don't see what more past that one can do.