PRO-IP bill signed into law

[Husar]

Would you go to a place with lousy, expensive food that's takes an hour to reach?

No, I would try to sneak in and steal their lousy food.
Seriously, since you noticed my analogy was bad, you could at least have tried to come up with a better one yourself here.

It's not about our legal concepts progressing, if anything it's about them going backwards. The copywright concept isn't really adapted for the digital world. Or to put it differently, about the entire population with internet has done multiple copywright breaches and that's without talking about downloading.

So the best way to deal with it is lynch-justice and breaking the laws?

Wouldn't not buying music from music companies cause the artists to search for other ways to find thier costumers?

Indeed, but how does piracy help with that?
It only adds a criminal component to a good cause. Kind of like the usual "the end justifies the means", the kind of excuse some really evil people in movies use.

The thing is, what would be an otherwise good response to such decrease in quality?

These company executives can care less about emails or letters written to them. The only thing that they listen to is money and so when people are finally getting them where it hurts, they're just trying stave off the inevitable rather than try to revamp the products they sell.

That depends, a lot of letters can make them change their minds if they know that customers will stop buying their products.
The real problem is that most customers are weaklings, they want to make a point but they want to the product anyway so they get it illegally or buy it despite the problems they have with it.
If they really had a problem with the product they should be hard and not get it at all, that way the publishers will also see that the will to fight their oppressive methods is stronger than the need to play a game or listen to that music. But as it is, people end up looking like crack addicts who hate drug lords but want their crack anyway.

That's just weak and not the right way.

Well....isn't that how a capitalistic system works? You either adapt and be a great company or you don't and you end up broke (well....from the bailouts happening recently, its probably more likely that you would receive a couple hundred billion dollars for not conducting business smartly...)

Yes, and this law is how a society works, if you break it, you will get fined/arrested or you adapt and live your life without breaking it, using legal means to shape your world. If that had been done by people, this law had never ever even been considered.

No, they're dieing because the whole world around them is progressing and they're desperately trying to cling on to old business strategies which do not work in the 21st century

And their "customers" are desperately trying to break the law and make a point that could easily be made without breaking the law.