It is, after all, "common knowledge" distribution has shifted, and pirates use this at every turn to justify their actions.
>A copy is not theft, it is a copy, final.
>The money I didn't spend on this movie was already earmarked for another purpose; nothing changed.
There's a social aspect, too.
>All my friends are pirating, if I do not, I fall behind; there is no choice.
Like an empire or a dynasty, the entertainment business is simply too entrenched; disconnected from the real world, to realise they are the ones at fault. It's not a question of ethics (we made it, we earned it, abide by our wishes), it's a matter of majority opinion.
It's refreshing to see this result, I just hope it sprung from correct reasoning, blocking any form of information should be done under the harshest of scrutinies, which means not just for the sake of attempting the sate a billion-dollar industry.
Used to be a time, when capitalism meant keeping with the times or succumbing to it. This sometimes feels eerily reminiscent of what I was taught about Soviet Russia: keeping their factories and businesses going at all costs, because the 5-year-plan was more important than progress.
USSR did not need billions of buckets, we do not need billions of optical disks.