Look: I don't even download movies, but I find the FBI/Homeland Security's involvement in this both frightening and sickening. I mean ... it's only a movie, right? It's not as if these people were swapping the plans for the Death Star! So why are the feds involved?
I don't believe downloading a film is necessarily an exercise in sound ethics. But who are the victims here? A handful of millionaires who have the entertainment industry so rigged that a new filmmaker can't shoot a guy drinking a Pepsi unless Pepsi has paid for product placement? A handful of millionaires hellbent on making it impossible to release a film for under $5 million? A handful of multi-million dollar movie theater companies (the ones who squeezed out the local theatres in the 90's) who tack-on 20 minutes of extra trailers to Revenge of the Sith ... without informing the audience in advance how long they're going to be waiting to see the film?
These people aren't victims ... they're criminals on a scale so large that they can make their own laws. Lucas certainly isn't a victim of downloading ... his movie is doing gangbusters! It's like feeling bad for the Sheriff of Nottingham while Little John gets slapped with a $5000 fine plus legal expenses.
The MPAA's obsessive quest to control all information exchanges is disturbing. I hope that the more they tighten their grasp, the more systems will slip through their fingers.