I have a few very short points that I think Strike and others may appreciate.

1. Who cares, everyone with any semblance of technological know-how will still occasionally pirate music and movies.

2. The record industries and such can take as many fascist temper tantrum crackdowns as they want, but they can't resist the forward momentum of technology.

3. "most of us" were never the problem anyway. I do download a few songs when i-tunes is being a bastard and doesn't carry a good enough variety of stuff, or doesn't have what I want, and I will occasionally download movies I'm dying to see if they're not released in the U.S. yet-- but if I'm dying to see it, I'm pretty much guaranteed to buy it when it comes out, so I don't feel guilty. The real problem is people sitting in their dorm room downloading every single episode of every single television, cable and anime show ever written, produced and televised, plus every variant of every soundtrack and arrangement of instrumental music ever, just "because." And people in third world countries downloading the movies from someone's cellphone computer and selling them for $2 out of the back of a motorcycle on the street.