I really feel for anyone who gets ripped off, in any life, and sympathize with several content creators I know personally who have been hit by texture or whole-hog content theft in recent days, but sadly, you are right. It's not a virtual problem. It's an everywhere problem.

I do hope LL will create a heavier-weight crimes task force, or a lot more will be undone by this...

FYI: Harper's Bazaar magazine in the US launched a fairly significant *ongoing* and multi-page campaign last summer to raise awareness amongst consumers of the consequences of purchasing counterfeit goods. You can learn more about it here though I should warn you that this is one of those ridiculously huge PDF files: http://www.acid.uk.com/pdf/acidnews27check.pdf