Yes the OS can do some of the legwork, but the software has to be able to take advantage of all of that processing power by knowing that it can launch 11 rendering threads and keep them all in sync.

Rendering doesn't do it this way, from what I've done multiprocessor rendering on my own time. The way these are rendered (usually), is that each processor is given their own frame to render, or the renderer does its job in buckets/tiles, whereas every core has its own tile to render from the final frame.

But the people who will own these, will probably have software that takes advantage of said amount of cores. I've had the first Mac Pro model ("only" a quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon 5150), and it's still blazingly fast after nearly 4 years.

Will they be forced to open a backdoor to the EU?

Well, if you mean with "backdoor" that we're getting buttfucked with this, then yeah.

Interestingly, I'd like to know how this affects things over here in Finland, since a huge portion of our internet traffic is coming through Sweden.

Excuse me, wtf? Nice way to begin posting by telling that "I'm the user who seriously doesn't know what I'm talking about" =D

Unfortenately for you, your post is completely inaccurate, OSX actually copies all the files you dragged on your disk. Try it, see that little green ball with + in it? That means it's going to copy something, not move or create aliases.

No you don't.