rubbish films

> Who cares if some fat cat allegedly 'lost' millions because nobody bought a film - the film was probably crap anyway.

The only flaw in this argument is that the most popular shared files are the most popular films.

Apart from that I am tired of the "lost sale" numbers being used to scaremonger everybody (music, films, software). I can't be the only one who thinks that most people hearing that mega-billions are lost every year to piracy would be far more likely to think that they should join in the free-for-all rather than feel sorry for the large media producers and continue to abstain from illegal content. To solve that problem the producers would have to engender sympathy with customers -- instead of the mass alienation threatening tactics that they currently use.