Originally Posted by ianathuth

Piracy isn't new, but I would think that only a very small percentage of people have engaged in piracy or watched a pirated movie.

There are millions of pirated copies of films and music tracks, but I would like to bet that a large percentage of them are never watched or listened to. They have just been downloaded because it was easy to do so and had the thrill of getting something for nothing with little likelyhood of being caught.

Can piracy ever be stopped? Who knows what methods may become available to cut down dramatically the possibility of copying music and films. The more that it can be cut down, the more the chance that the industry will clamp down on the ones that continue to break the law. How many people will continue to risk having a large fine, their computing equipment seized and destroyed and getting a criminal record for downloading / uploading things that they never watch, listen to or use?