Hello.
I don't agree with you about the BSA. Let me explain why their actions damage the Free Software movement.
Mostly the problem is just in their "playing the public service". It's not strange that the behaviour is against the law (or it should be, see my other post).
The main problem nowadays is that most people do not even know Free Software exists, they feel it normal and unavoidable that proprietary licenses are so strict. People had understtod the "poor programmer" tale, the "necessity of copyright protection", the "copying music for personal use is damaging the poor singer" and all other "intellectual-property lies".
Wasn't it in this list that someone suggested to write a "raise consciousness howto"? There is no consciousness of user's *rights* to use copyrighted material, and the BSA (and Disney, and Holliwood, and Warner, and ...) tries to *lower* people consciousness about the issue.
So why is the site bad? Because it reinforces in the audience (and I expect them to have quite a good audience, given the amount of "meta" tags they use) the idea that "copying is evil". And the idea that the BSA is protecting the law, so it is good for society, for the economy and for the poor author.
What we need is raise consciousness, and that's why we should stop such disinforming campaign. And if we succeed we should try to make the newspapers know that they are misbehaving.
So, while we are not for making illegal copies of proprietary software (not piracy, please), we are definitely against misrepresenting a commercial entity with a definite interest in the market for a good-will organization that helps the state in fighting crime.
I´m not quite sure what it would help us to show the BSA that they are misbehaving. The BSA is a group of Marketing freaks, who have to job to do publicity against software piracy.
Please add "in order to sell more proprietary software". They don't want "piracy" to go away by making all software free. You were joking, definitely :)
/alessandro