[bfree]

Going after the sharers isn't about increasing sales, it's about decreasing bootlegs.

No it isn't. The RIAA continues to associate filesharing with the decreased sales of over the last few years.

[discostu]

That's just to try to convince people that it's actually damaging. In the end it's about stopping bootlegging. I garauntee that if you gave the RIAA a magic button that if they pushed it all bootlegging would end but sales wouldn't increase by one cent they would hire somebody to push that button over and over until it wore out.