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Originally Posted by Itse
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Didn't read the article, but that quote you pulled out is garbage. It's not that people don't know how their business model works, it's that their business model sucks. They want a theatrical release followed by a commercial release, followed by a commercial release of whatever future format comes out. They want absolute control of the formats and the devices that can play the formats so that they can continually charge you for the same content.
Besides, SOPA had a lot more to do with driving up the costs of running a site dependent on user-generated material than actually stopping piracy. Piracy isn't an imminent threat to the media cartel, but independent artists operating online are. Places like megaupload and youtube may be havens for piracy, but they also provide a business model for independent artists and distributors.