Perhaps with this EC ruling there can be some sanity brought to this issue.

Sometimes the only way to find rare/obscure media is on the torrent sites. Not for sale anywhere!

Anyway, would be nice if pro-copyright people would get this into their heads: the average pirate *is not* some hardcore radical who makes a point of not paying. Yes, there are is a good amount of those too, but the average pirate is not one of them. He/she is someone who takes stuff fir free because a) he/she wouldn’t buy in the first place unless it was discounted; b) he/she would have to go outside to buy a physical copy. The technology is so far that both these shortcomings could be eliminated (cutting the costs and need for for physical copy) yet the media industry is slow on adopting it. Spotify/iTunes Store are a good beginning, but their selection is still small and in most places in the world their service is still unavailable.

As for the actual TF article: atleast now there is a clear path to fighting against disconnecting – EU has said what it thinks of this, so when some ISP disconnects you without a judge’s approval you can go as far as the EU Court to reverse this (or atleast demand some damages for your stress).

What precisely is “the entertainment/technical industry”? I’ve never heard of that division before.