I think the RIAA would lose 10 dollars and make 1 dollars back in order to stop piracy. They don't have this concept of working with the internet to make even more money. It's either the highway or their way.

Frankly, I don't care much about the whole creative industry going away or not going away. Actually it's getting bigger. I wouldn't notice, because there's so much games out there and people who are willing to produce arts, musics, and games for free just because. Even if they stop producing games, I wouldn't notice. I would never be able to enjoy all these things in my lifetime anyway.

What people should be doing is finding good old stuff to read or improve on existing works, which is kinda prohibited by copyright laws in the first place.

It seems that we are too biased to "new stuff" even though there are a bunch of old stuff we missed.

I mean, WW2 shooters are just the same old, same old. Yet we buy them years after years. Now it's modern wartime. I am sure in 30 years time, it will be WW2 again.

Not so. The Internet copies nothing. It's the ultimate (and not centrally controlled) _distribution_ machine.

Piracy was going on well before the Internet came along. And distribution too, but then it was via BBS's, not the Internet. Passing this law will do absolutely nothing to stop copying, or distribution. It will just have a huge chilling effect.

It is the ultimate copy machine as much as distribution. Every time it distributes something it does so by making another copy.