Well, wake up.
Some people in power are rowing the same boat ashore in western waters and they ain’t called Michael.

If it ever becomes possible to stop people downloading, or to force ISP’s to police all our files, it will spell disaster for the industries, not the joyous profit binge they keep harping on about.

With the recent closures (UK) of some digital and analogue Radio stations, it shows that DAB is not revolutionary at all. It was always doomed to be an unspectacular medium of inferior quality in the UK, mainly because it was rolled out to be inferior to even the poorest nations on earth’s roll out. Cheapskates.
The future IS the internet for visual, audible and even traditional paper based media formats.

If you can’t share the music, the movies, the news, the dancing, the laughter, the sadness without being ostracised, incarcerated or fined then what exactly is the point in having or celebrating any of it?

There is a green paper currently been assessed in the UK for ISP policing, but you might not have heard very much about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm

Good luck policing 6 million+ people in the UK alone.
I’d wager a bet that it’s not really 6 million, but nearly EVERY internet connection that has downloaded -something- at some point.

Might as well pull the plug on the lot now.

That analogy only applies to physical, tangible objects, and has no meaning in the digital world, where a file can be copied an infinite number of times without affecting the original owner. Besides, his one-sided view of sharing vs. stealing completely contradicts his claim that it is, in fact, theft.