I hope to see.read about people who pirate and send money to the artist when i see people complaining about the middleman as a reason why they pirate.

Let me know how I could possibly “steal” a copy I made myself from another copy someone else willingly placed at my disposal.

Get back to us when a pirate making a copy of a song caused your own DVD’s to magically vanish into thin air.

If you are too slow, too stupid, and too incompetent to distribute copies of information using technology born after the last century then you have really only yourselves to blame when people begin distributing said information themselves.

“And that’s the new free market.”

The market rules are the same they’ve always been. When there is no longer a need for ten thousand coach drivers to ply the streets of London due to the newfangled metro, trim sails and survive as cabbies instead.

Or, in your case, realize that the general public will no longer subsidize an industry of redundancy and incompetence.