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Don't feel bad about being wrong Barry. You are of an enormous group of people who once thought technology or politics would solve piracy. The simple fact is that they are not cures because they only salve the symptoms, they don't cure the disease.
A culture shift is needed, back to the notion of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay and the corrolary notion that if someone does an honest day's work for you, you should be happy to pay tgem fairly for it. The carrot is that if someone makes a great movie and you pay them well, they will make more movies for you. The stick is that if they don't make money, they stop making movies and you are stuck watching dreck. It really is that simple.
People were pissed that their own work as employees became undervalued and technology allowed them to invert that feeling by taking what they felt they should have been able to afford. Napster was the tipping point.
The sooner we get back to valuing craftsmanship, honest work and a sustainable culture of rewarding the people who create what we enjoy... Because we want them to create more for us...the sooner piracy shrinks like cancer cells after chemo.
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