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I think that we are close to the end of rampant piracy. When governments crack down and seize assets of big torrent aggregator sites like megaupload, they only have to repeat that a few times to make these sites afraid to operate.
For piracy to be rampant no matter the technology (p2p, torrents etc) you need easy to find websites. Eliminate the websites and you will still have piracy but it won't be nearly as widespread. And it is a good thing and worth the expense. It's not just greedy corporations hurt by this.
Musicians, authors, everyone involved in making movies and tv shows, everyone involved in creating games, software engineers are all hurt by piracy.
I, a teacher, am even hurt by piracy. No matter what textbook you choose, the solution manuals are one google search way. It's impossible to assign homework where half of my class doesn't just look up the solutions and not try. I know that there will always be copiers out there. But it's worse than that-- THEY DON'T PERCEIVE IT AS WRONG. But they've just short changed themselves from learning.
The same generation that doesn't perceive copying as wrong, has also no problem downloading music, movies, and games without paying. They don't feel the least bit guilty about what they do. Educating that generation is also important. They have no respect for intellectual property.
In summary, piracy hurts many people and two steps need to be taken: keep cracking down on big torrent sites and educate the young adults out there.
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