Is online piracy a really serious problem? My opinion: nope.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. The movie industry has done a bang up job of fighting piracy by refusing to make movies good enough

that anyone would go to the fucking trouble of downloading them from a bittorrent website in sweden, or whatever.

Seriously. The real interesting narrative stuff has been happening on cable tv, for years, tv being (while still subject to copyright laws, etc) subject to an entirely different delivery medium with certainly a more accesible and advertising as opposed to premium payment (with the exception of channels like HBO, which also seems to be doing just fine regarding having many people- like myself- consider it worth paying for).

Movies just suck ass these days. These "war on piracy" moves are coming from the same people who expect to shovel boardroom-produced crap out to the masses who they believe will happilly shell out big bucks to gobble up the worst, cheesiest, lamest forms of dumbed-down "entertainment" until the end of time.

That applies to the film industry and it applies to the music industry as well. The interesting shit has always come from the rule-breakers and people on the edge, not the bean counters trying to protect the bottom line.