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Damian is right that piracy in the form of Joe Smith sharing his music with his friends won't ever be stopped and maybe it should never have been.
The problem is that whole businesses have been built on creative product that was not created or paid for.
Google being one of the main culprits. So we have two strong lobbyists, the old entertainment industries and the new INTERNET companies. The Hollywood companies want to enforce a privatized INTERNET, where everything is paid for at point of use. Like Murdoch's newspapers and pay sites.
If it is not possible to get paid at the point of use, when the product is downloaded and viewed, then the only other way of funding the producers will be to make all users of the INTERNET pay to use the INTERNET, which will then be distributed to the creators.
Or creative people are paid to produce by the State and it is accessed by all, this may sound Utopian but it is how the BBC works and they have no problem with the INTERNET or funding.
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