For smaller (not size wise) artist piracy is a real blessing...perfect PR for them....its never the artits that looses money on piracy...always the big fucking bissniss behind them that "give" us all the crappy "music" we have today...you must see that mate? We have a genre in Sweden thats called "dansband" its music for older people how loves to go dancing and listen to them. They make one new album every year or every pther year, but they are out on the roads and play almost every weekend. For them piracy works like great PR, foolk download their albums and learn all the new songs and then they go see them and dance to their songs.
An artist should not be a studio rat, they should be able to tour and play live and get thier money that way...like it always has been.
And movies have their cinema to bring in the BIG BIG bucks....when it come to gaming tho...thats a nother story...because they can only sell their games and have no other platform to bring in money...so I never download games...just movies.