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The problem is laws that were passed pre Internet are not working or not being worked today. What is or is not legal is irrelevant. It's what can be enforced that matters and nothing so far has worked. If the legal eagles of Warner, MGM, and Microsoft can't do it with the present laws, then as Blinbaby points out no one here will have a clue or hope in hell.
The Internet either has to be regulated and controlled in a way that works or it will carry on as it is. A place to make a bit of money while others lose a lot of money. Here's another idea to throw to you wolves.
Piracy is used by many to make money, remove that aspect and you remove a lot of Piracy. The US is still the driving force and main place people looking to advertise want to penetrate.
So pass a law in the US that allows a company like Sony or Vivid to go to the courts and block a site that links, promotes or carries/shares it's copyrighted product to US traffic. For instance NBC will take Youtube to court, where the court will decide if YouTube is breaking the new law and if it decides it is and is not doing it's utmost to stop copyrighted content on it's site the court will decree their domain will be blocked.
OK it needs working out and will be a sledge hammer to crack a walnut. It has a snow balls chance in hell of getting passed as well. But laws passed in 1999 clearly don't work in 2009.
The solution to all your problems with piracy will go away with a fully regulated Internet, which will deliver more problems.
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