The article is both right and very wrong. It's right in all "human" senses of that word : legally what it's advocating is right. Morally it is the right thing.

The article is both right and very wrong. It's right in all "human" senses of that word : legally what it's advocating is right. Morally it is the right thing. From a societal stability point of view you're right. From ... and so on. But as you point out, there's one big way you're wrong : reality. Right or wrong, there's something people don't seem to understand. We have laws. We have morals. We have society. We have duties. We have rights. All of those are swept aside when reality wiggles it's toes 10000 km from congress. Of course, there seems to be one tactic that would be trivial for the movie industry to adopt : https://play.google.com/store/recommended?c=movies https://play.google.com/store/recommended?c=movies (ditto for amazon, iTunes, ...) Divide all the prices by 100. Stop offering the "buy" button at all. Offer a per-month total access plan with compulsory licencing. That would help enormously.