What if the same had to be proven by companies who get people for piracy? Isn't this basically the same thing? We are talking about stolen information that has value in slightly different ways but causes harm to the "victim" in similar ways. Resonable fines should be paid by anyone who commits piracy and the same rules should apply to companies who can't keep their customers private information secure.

I have lived in the US and in Sweden both in fairly newly built areas. I have also worked in various places related to IT and from experience the internet here in Sweden is much more reliable and faster than that of the US (Comcast). In the US I don't remember ever getting the speed I paid for and it was not unusual for the internet to be terribly slow at times or be completely down. Here in Sweden I currently pay for 100/100 internet and regularly get 95/95 or so which could be because of my own router/wireless etc. On good days it goes over 100/100 which is surprising :D recently I saw one area of Sweden where you could go from 100/10 speeds to 1000/1000 for an extra $20 which is super cheap.

I don't know my passwords, I use a password manager like KeePass.