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How do we attack the miscreant in this case?

Easily. There are civil and criminal laws against copyright infringement. Enforce them against copyright infringers when they are found. Duh.

And watch the slander

I stated that your position is that inanimate objects, not misbehaving individuals, should be the objects of legal enforcement. You have just confirmed this to be true. Truth, by definition, cannot be slander. QED.

But the situation is bigger now. Back in the day the individual bootlegger wasn't a problem. He'd maybe distribute something to 5 or 6 friends at a cost to himself in material (blank TDK's the currency of my teenaged years that's for sure) and time (took 90 minutes to fill a 90 minute tape). They went after the big bootlegging operations (aka the swapmeet salesmen) because they were actually costing the industry money.

Now it's not that way. I can rip a whole CD in just a couple of minutes, toss it on a website and blammo thousands of copies are out there. Now the individual bootlegger can outstrip the the pro for distribution range and speed. And it's nearly impossible to trace back.

And stuff your "duh" where the sun don't shine, you haven't presented a solution.

Neither AF nor I are blaming the equipment. There's a difference between using the equipment to enforcing via the equipment. There's ceiling to the amount of horsepower a car can be sold with in the US (hence why we don't get real lambo's, ours have been modified because the default build has too many horsepower). The level it's limited at is enough to get most cars from 0-75 in about 5 seconds, you really don't need to do that any faster, there's not really much reason to have more horsepower.
And since you're insult was based on a deliberate misstatement of my position yes indeed it is slander. On the other side you can just follow a simple rule: never say anything on line that would get you popped in the face in person. If you follow that you'll find you have much more civil and enjoyable conversations.