Piracy ending?

It seems that lately the government has been doing its job. There has been recent crackdowns on the Peer 2 Peer file sharing epidemic. Piracy is a big issue when it comes to the entertainment industry, because it kills the revenue from music and movie sales. So why has it taken the government so long to crack down hard on the offenders. Truth is there is no real answer, but better late than never! Recently Limewire, one of the top 5 used Peer 2 Peer file sharing websites was shutdown. This is a year after the big lawsuit against the owner of Pirate Bay and many years later after the lawsuit of a women who was charged millions for downloading 24 songs! 1.92 million to be exact, Jammie Thomas was sued by the RIAA in 2007 for that amount. Lets be realistic its stealing but the some of the records she downloaded will never be worth $80,000 a song.

I personally think that iTunes should be shutdown also, seeing as how they are ripping off the artist for major portions of there royalties. How is it that they can take the artists songs and make these iTunes mixtapes and resale them with the artist getting no profit at all. I truly believe that iTunes has helped contribute to the demise of the music industry more than it has helped. There programs out there such as Mojo that enable a user to take their music content and let someone else on the same network copy it unto their computer. With all this said will piracy ending help or hurt the music industry, I guess only time will tell! I honestly thing if the artist work a little harder at putting out quality music and focus on performing that record sales would increase by 15% in the next year. I feel that the artist have lost connection with their target audience and thats what may have additionally caused the demise of the music industry.