I agree with you in principle, but there comes a time when calling someone "stupid" or a "dimwit" is the only thing left. There can only be so much discourse on the subject before you have to assume that the person you are speaking AT is not taking what you are saying seriously. This has been going on for months, perhaps years, with the entertainment industry and Hollywood. The masses cry out for them to change their business model, for them to provide easier access without over encumbering it with DRM that breaks the product/media, for them to update their dated delivery systems that FEAR technology instead of REVERING it, and for them to stop abusing the trust of their customers with empty promises and payments to more lobbyists to help further their agendas that none of us want to see fulfilled. There have been countless things now that deliver people the content they want, the way they want it, without issue (look at Steam and Netflix). But instead of building on the ideas of these pioneering services, they fear a digitally driven content delivery system that most of us would rather use than sift through thousands of torrents and comments to find the latest HD episode of a TV show that was on last night.
I am not a doctor. But if a doctor told me "if you don't change what you are doing, you will die or severely harm yourself", I would then seek a second opinion. If that second opinion told me the same thing, wouldn't I be a "dimwit" or "stupid" for not at least exploring with all my resources the methods necessary to stop my probable death? What about if an ARMY of doctors and doctors assistants and nurses told me the same thing? Am I a stupid dimwit then?
The same goes for the media industry execs who, instead of coming up with a new business model to support the changing environment, decide to try and control the very thing that is driving these breakthroughs in content delivery. If they refuse to listen to the "experts" and their customers, then aren't they also "stupid dimwits"? Is going and lobbying EVEN HARDER for SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and trying to break the Internet really NOT the work of a stupid dimwit in this case?