Projects with bigger problems

> At the bottom, it's a huge free rider problem [...] There should never be... Everyone who ... needs to ... [...] We need a change in people's expectation [...]

Unless you live in a dictatorship (and even then...) there is no "People should just..." Social pressure has never worked beyond tribe-sized groups. People just try things, that's human nature at its core. Some people take big risks (like: depending on an orphaned project), others not. Some succeed, others not. Some learn (e.g: when hacked), others not. Some do as taught, others not. Some care, many not. Trying to stem that tide never got anywhere.

The only two effective actions are:

- Making things illegal. Vaguely effective sometimes. For instance: changing a software licence.
- Offering an alternative that people like better. For instance: DRM-protected streaming that Just Works over free P2P downloads of semi-random and possibly infected media.

In the past you could "educate" and influence a little bit but that's pretty much dead nowadays in this era of attention merchants and echo chambers. You can still publish stuff but that's more for personal "I told you so!" visibility and gain than for actual prevention.