The US Navy has a massive superiority over every other navy in the world for a good many years. This is just the next step.
The recently release radar information (tracking raindrops) was probably a bit of a warning telling others that their new generation of missiles was not going to work as well as they think. Probably much like NASA showing people underground rivers was designed to tell others hiding ICBMs was a waste.
I remember an old story about NASA giving a detailed map of the underground parts of some river system via ground penetrating radar to a country thus telling the USSR that building large underground facilities was not really going to hide them.
I thought it was the Nile and Egypt, but I am probably wrong on that. It was in one of the history books I was reading in the 90's and they are in a storage garage about 400miles away.
Because I made a personal decision that I wouldn't torrent anything but open source stuff. If I'm going to format shift, I will buy the item. The author deserves the money for continuing their efforts.
I don't disagree with your decision to not torrent, but whether the author gets any money from format shifting is determined by each author's contract for each work.
The recently release radar information (tracking raindrops) was probably a bit of a warning telling others that their new generation of missiles was not going to work as well as they think. Probably much like NASA showing people underground rivers was designed to tell others hiding ICBMs was a waste.