I see the issues at hand through my own perspective, then decide if it fair or not ! I can understand your need for order and sustainable attitude but it's just not how we are made. If a software is made for 1 user that 1 user should be able to buy it, but if that software requires a massive investment we consider it wrong and copyright a bitch. On the other hand we do want a reliable software that we can use, so when some guy decides he's going to release his 2 years work as free software that guy wants at least some recognition and yes copyright should protect his work at least he gets some traffic on his website place a banner and buys coffee and cigarettes. So 'fair' is the word in my view not free.

surely we all see it's not about copyright ! it would be if this happened in other country like US but in UK it one more brick in the wall around state police. heh that's what you get for being a gentlemen, you get run over !