Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.
@nickwedig
It's amazing how willing people are to just take these arguments at face value and not internalize the obvious reality that they literally just want to use the arm of the law to force you to give up your money and your freedoms. That's it.