How is this insightful? That metaphor is way off base. Prohibition put morality on trial, while pirating software is theft of a product that required development time, support, administrative costs, etc. You're proposing that we take action against our legislators that feel that stealing should be punished? Do we revert to a feudal society next? I think if you really looked for a mandate on this issue you would find that perhaps besides the subsection of online culture that makes up many Slashdot readers like yourself, people don't think theft should be legalized.