How will extending US powers even further do anything significant besides making the rest of the world dislike the US more? It certainly won't stop sharing. People want to see & listen to content and at least some of them are smart enough to do it no matter what laws may stand in their way. Most people don't want to break the law but if they can't find the content through easy, legal means and they can through fairly simple, but not-much prosecuted illegal means they will.
What I don't understand is how RIAA is still "losing" so much if they have iTunes & Amazon.
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How will extending US powers even further do anything significant besides making the rest of the world dislike the US more? It certainly won't stop sharing. People want to see & listen to content and at least some of them are smart enough to do it no matter what laws may stand in their way. Most people don't want to break the law but if they can't find the content through easy, legal means and they can through fairly simple, but not-much prosecuted illegal means they will.
What I don't understand is how RIAA is still "losing" so much if they have iTunes & Amazon.