Video Piracy?

As The Dark Knight's gross box office numbers slide past the three hundred million mark, I am left wondering ... does video piracy really hurt show business? I mean, there are bootlegged copies of this movie out there, yet it is breaking box office records all over the place. So what's the deal? People still seem to be willing to shell out their hard earned monies to see movies, so why is video piracy such a hot button topic? Who cares if someone is so cheap they would rather watch a crappy stolen version of a great movie? They seem to be in the minority.

I worry that the movie industry is going to do what the music industry did by attacking those who share files with friends around the world. By attacking Napster and other file sharing sites, the music industry hurt itself. Perhaps the movie industry could help itself by learning a lesson from its entertainment sibling.

Or ... not.