Yeah you can bet that the 8000$ per m3 gas delivered from Qatar via the United States is going to become very popular, after Gasprom is no longer able to receive payments from its customer, and subsequently stops all of its supply to Europe. Well, this new $8000 gas will surely have molecules of freedom in it, unlike that authoritarian Putin's gas. But for how long will Europeans be willing to put up with prices like this?
Who are "they"? The Donbass milita? They have been engaging in various forms of combat with the Ukrainian forces multiple times since the ceasefire in 2015. This is not news. Stop reading and watching garbage media outlets (that, unfortunately, could be applied to all mainstream media of the US and Europe today).
You can't play modern vinyl on a gramophone. Well, technically you can, but you'll just destroy the record. You need shellac records if you want to play them on a gramophone, and the last one was produced maybe in the 40s.
Nobody ever in Russia gets prosecuted for doing anything to any software for their own personal use. And actually there's been very few cases when someone was prosecuted let's say for using pirated software for their business. A couple of guys got unlucky and that's basically it.
And this is how it should be everywhere, the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago. Today, the whole copyright thing is bizarre.