Every industry has deals that are too good to be true. Hell, buying stolen cartons of cigarettes out the back of a truck is "obviously illegal" but people have done it for centuries. No, I'm not equating copyright violation with theft - you could say "it says a lot about the software industry that a site where you could type in the name of a program and download it for free is 'obviously illegal'". Kind of like the vast majority of uses of the pirate bay are illegal. It doesn't say anything.