please stop inventing the argument you want to argue agaist. nowhere in my post did i say creators shouldn't own their IP, or that piracy was right. nothing here has even the slightest relevance to matthew inman. piracy is illegal, it's not part of "the market". theft values everything as free, it has no relevance to this discussion. i didn't say anything about piracy. that's not the debate here.
I don't see how the OP's statement that no amount of lawmaking will make people want to listen to more of a specific song has anything to do with piracy.