denim, I'm not trying to pick a fight, honest
I completely understand what you mean - my mother is an author. It's just that I don't think the criminal code was written with these kind of innovations in mind, as before the advent of computers, it was much more trouble to borrow someone's book and write out a copy of it than it was to just go buy it or borrow & read.
I don't know what should be done for the legal system to fix this, but the current legal codes need a lot of updating for pretty much everything concerning computers (hacking, copyright infringement, spamming, fraud, etc.). One of the biggest problems - I think - is that the people responsible for the laws don't know the technology.