| @Article Pirates will always exist.. we can just assume.
Like many have said.. There will also be ways to get around methods put up, stopping pirates..
What I wanted to say is this though.. examples>
I buy a book, and I put it on a table for anyone to read. It may be an IP, but I am not trying to make a profit by any means, only sharing a good book.
Same with Music.. Good CD, I buy it, burn three of the songs onto a CD.(since only three were good) Share it with a friend. It cost me the 15 to 20 dollars for the CD. Then the blank CD also cost me money and time to make even though I am doing this for free. And said friend end up not liking the music and threw it away. Who lost? I did.
A good movie.. Same as with the CD. Except this time I decide.. hey I don't want to waste my money on a blank DVD, and just transfer it via.. ftp.. or p2p. by the internet connection I paid for. Friend likes it buys a Copy legitimately from Walmart, or Amazon.com..
Whoever produced that movie that was well worth while, made money.
In all my examples. The product was originally bought at some point in time. And Shared. The Book, Song, or Media, was not shared with some intent to sale. It was not forcibly taken from anyone without there consent. i.e Like a Pirate or Thief might do.
.. if its worth buying, people will buy it. If the product is a pile of steamy shit, then you will avoid it.
What the MPAA & RIAA are trying to do, to me... is buy the playing field. And control what happens on it. Hopefully this will not be the case. As some mentioned, I guess I can say Generally Hollywood, has a dying business model, or at least one with a really bad limp. But instead of fixing the problem, there fixing symptoms.
At this point I would just probably ramble...
But one more thing.. as far as I know distribution via Internet cuts out a ton of cost.. From the DVDs.. to the Manufacturing cost.. to the labor it takes to make sure things are running correctly and on schedule for the DVD release. Plus they can cut out quite a few middle men cost as well. From Transportation, to Storage, to cost at the retail store to display said items.
I guess when the cost starts making sense to the person buying, things will turn for the better.
To Recap:
+Pirates and Thieves are people to steal with the intent of some kind of gain.
+People who share things they bought willingly should not be listed as pirates. Just people who share.
+People who never buy hard copies to support the creators I would call moochers..
+Hollywood, needs to pull there heads out of there assess or fantasy land and revaluate there business model.
I must make this note.. What the MPAA and the RIAA are trying to do, is the equivalent of one man taking on and fighting a hundred other men. Except in this case, the MPAA and RIAA are trying to fight well the world? or at least Millions of people. ..
Another words there fight is futile, stupid, their strategy is lacking.. I guess this is why there trying to buy the playing field. Why try and be creative? 
End my Humble Opinion.
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