To criminalize a whole youth generation?

So called pirate copying involves the desire to, for no cost, procure music and films for personal consumption. The Pirate Party have apparently benefited from individuals so inclined. For example they got a lot of new members after the verdict on The Pirate Bay case.

Since I have not ever copied any film or any music, I would like to be provocative, for the sake of argument.

Why do we have a whole generation of suspected criminals on our hands? Could it be that their parents and grandparents are equally culpable? They have been doing something criminal as well. They have been utilizing a new technology that officially does not exist--the technology that does not exist (TTDE)--on people that does not know it exists.

Children tend to do what you do, not what you suggest verbally.

Therefore it is possible to see that the Pirates are gaining ground. They have silent benefactors.