…and so the music and video industries attack the file sharers, that makes sense.

They left out the top of the pyramid…

Studios and distributors chiselling hard-earned money off people:

Strangely enough this image fails to allocate a level to the corporates who hijack the public internet and its standards for their own financial gain.
The free, voluntary internet is being attacked by the real pirates like Microsoft (who wont comply with W3c standards etc), and also by companies like Sony and Apple etc, who support DRM and sell products such as mp3 players and ipods by using the false representation that these products allow the user to play their chosen music. Such products allow users only to access music etc that is APPROVED by the corporates.
These companies are twisting the laws of contract around in ways that should not be permitted. When you buy an ipod or a CD, what opportunity do you get to enter a real contract that gives you what you really want? Who tells you how many times you may be allowed to copy a particular song onto it? What you are actually buying is not made clear to you…you get a limited functionality that is never fully explained to you before you buy. You get a device that places control in the hands of DRM software (itunes is an example) and DRM hardware (eg the SD card, which was perfectly perfect in its original form of the MMC card anyway).
In the hands of these “pirate” corporates, your own rights are being permanently eroded. Now who is shafting who?? I would never sanction theft of music by pirates, and I will never sanction theft of my rights by Sony, Apple and all those other companies who are the real internet pirates, seeking to take control of an international data medium that we would like to continue to use freely. Keep the corporate Jolly Rogers off the internet! Never buy from any corporate who rams DRM down your throat. Drag’n’Drop is the only true freedom.