So yes, the severity is low, as the attacker has to be within your LAN in almost all scenarios.
You can still deplete your supply of renewables by using more than the refill rate - at least temporarily.
The problem I have with laws like this is that you ONLY catch the stupid people anyway.
Always remember: They have to succeed only once. Yes, a smart criminal might get away again and again -- until he doesn't get away any longer because of some stupid mistake. Outside of our special talents, knowledge and education, all of us are stupid.
I for instance would buy one as soon as they are affordable.
The League tried to conquer the Union states with two armies, the Bavarian army led by Gen. Tilly, and the Imperial army lead by Gen. Wallenstein (Waldstejn), who was Bohemian despite his German name. They devastated most German protestant countries till 1631, when the King of Sweden entered the battle to "save Protestantism".
When France entered the battle, it was trying to oust the Habsburgs from Spain or at least to weaken the Habsburg influence in Europe.
And yes, it is your choice what do do with the software you write yourself. No one will ever tell you different, except your employer. It is also your choice to smoke, to tell racist jokes, to not ask for help, to let your house rot away and to spend all your money on blackjack and hookers. Richard M. Stallman has no rights to your software at all.
But you too have no right to other people's software, because they have the same rights to do with their software as they like. If you want to get access to it, you have to play nice. You can spend huge amounts of money, which is the market economy way of doing things. But why? Software per se is no scarce good. The only reason you would have to spend huge amounts of money for a good that is easily replicated again and again is because other people don't play nice too.
Richard M. Stallman set up some rules how to play nice when it comes to software. You are not required to play nice. But then expect others not to be nice to you too.
What ever the reason was for the many wars in Europa, the different languages weren't.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?