Hmm. Well put--it certainly trickles down. However, that has always been the case even with piracy aside: when have publishers not squeezed the profits from th

Hmm. Well put--it certainly trickles down. However, that has always been the case even with piracy aside: when have publishers not squeezed the profits from the artists of the world? Or what about Walmart running small companies out? Spotify paying peanuts to musicians? That's certainly been a trend of capitalism for a long time. The companies that have means to invest lots of legal and technical resources in developing DMC and help track down those torrent hubs have a lot of money. They are trying to shut them down to protect their bottom-line, not the content producers. It's a business after all.