You would prefer "Please stop that, children, we need to sell those products to other people so that we can make more money"?
I really don't understand what you think the "mature" response to people undermining your ability to sell your own product are.
The problem is that it is technology and economics that is affecting their ability to sell their products.
The content industry make their money by selling copies. This worked in an era when making copies was expensive, or required expensive equipment. But now, the cost of copying is approaching zero. Economically, it's hard to make much of a profit off something that can be had for nothing.
The only way they can continue with their current business model is to attempt to hold back technology with legislation. But this is only a temporary solution; eventually there will be enough bandwidth to stream movies anonymously, and someone will create a P2P client with a nice easy interface. Whether this is right or wrong, technology tends to be rather amoral.
The content industry needs to find a way of making money off content that doesn't involve selling copies. This is by no means an insurmountable problem. However, it will require a large shift in the industry, and I'd be surprised if many of the current big players survive.
In any event I'm tired of this conversation, so I probably won't reply again. I wish I could say I enjoyed it, but frankly, most of your arguments are more emotionally charged and abusive than well reasoned, even when the reason that you did have would have made a decent argument.
Abusive? I believe the worst I've done is to phrase questions with a certain rhetorical edge, and then only in response to the occasional less-than-polite tone that crept into your posts.
First, this is Slashdot; I am not exactly the most impolite poster you'll meet. Second, if you want a more polite tone from me, then be more polite yourself. For instance, instead of saying "Whoooosh", you might say "Sorry, I don't think we're quite on the same track". Then I might be a little less sarcastic in my response.