Im actually a little irked, so I will expand on my last thought. The taxpayer's money should not be spent protecting a greedy industry from its own incompetence. And let's be frank, piracy is simply the people voting with their wallets.
Movies have grown more and more bloated in cost both in the theater and on DVD. On top of that they want to double charge for digital and physical copies thanks to the ridiculous DRM on DVDs that does NOTHING to stop piracy but simply prevents the consumer from putting their purchased content on their digital devices. Video games are becoming a screw job as well. If you get a computer game they are slapping more and more brutal DRM on it or their favorite move of not releasing the whole game or releasing the whole game, but locking part of it on disc. Either way they charge you another 10-20 dollars for the "DLC" which is actually just the rest of your already purchased game. Microsoft and probably Sony eventually charge you to even play on line
And music? Get bent RIAA. For decades you sold millions upon millions of albums based upon 1-3 songs then the rest filler. Billions of dollars in profit and millions of consumers hosed because there was no way to get just the good stuff. Finally the internet rolls around, so the game changed. People dont have to put up with your garbage, with blindly buying albums without knowing if they were good, they rebelled or they just buy the songs you want. Either way your sale's went down, deal.
Finally, the movie, television, and music industries do their best to try and strangle any new legal method consumers have to consume their product. Anytime something like pandora, last fm, spotify, netflix, redbox, etc. comes along, gets people legally consuming and gets popular they get greedy and they try to strangle it, suck it dry of every last bit of blood and treasure. Look at netflix, as soon as it became popular the television and movie companies demanded more money, so netflix had to raise rates, and now its spiraling. Millions of legal consumers gone, quite potentially back to piracy.
But no, its not their fault. The government needs to come save them from the evil pirates who are costing them all their money because darn it they are trying their best and are being utterly victimized by anonymous banditos who steal for no reason from them!
tl;dr Im sick of our tax dollars being used to protect incompetence. The consumer is fed up and the government shouldnt make it so that the industry doesnt have to make changes.