Are the AA's and their equivalents not shooting themselves in the foot? Framing the argument in the way they have done (piracy is KILLING art) might work for a while but sooner or later a thinking person will come to realise that it really doesn't. Home taping didn't kill anything. Of course, if everyone suddenly stopped buying and only used torrents then the system would collapse, but will that happen? If everyone stopped paying taxes the country would collapse too. No country has an army big enough to enforce that.

You smoke pot, you're a drug-crazed menaced. Except millions already do, they just keep it quiet (from the law at least). The more you push the drug-crazed menace part, the more anyone will any sense will push back as it's demonstrably untrue.

It might work great as a short term strategy and help you get favourable laws passed but I think they might be approaching the end of the line soon.

No need to be too sore though, Mickey Mouse has had a better run than virtually anyone in history.