This isn't so much about piracy, it's privacy. It's one thing to target something like piracy, but then it's another to just invade someone's computer as if they were looking for witches.
Oh absolutely, and that's what wrong with current laws.
Right now their tactic is just a scare tactic. Making examples of people and making pirates fear that they can be found, fined, and jailed. Most any type of law whose main deterrent is fear is usually pretty bad. If they took the time to go after the main piracy websites then maybe the issue won't be resolved completely, but it'll be decreased significantly.
I always liked to say that piracy is like weeds in your driveway. You can go out there time and time again and cut down the weeds (the pirates) and it'll look nice for a time, but they'll just grow back. But if you take the time and effort to just pull them out by the route (the uploaders and hosting sites) then not only will your driveway look nice, but the weeds won't be coming back for a long time.
Like honestly, going after Megaupload and such isn't a bad idea, but to go after the whole company because of what their users do is a bad way of doing it. Offering incentives or enforcing regulations that require websites to cut down on piracy is what they should do. Killing a service that plenty of people use for legitimate purposes is not the way.
Now if they spent more time going after The Plunderer's Dock instead of everyone who uses it, the issue would taken care of without as much backlash from rights organizations and without a lot of people getting hurt.
Well I believe that its more of the industry's fault that piracy seems like a better option than buying games, I don't want to get into this because I don't think its relevant.
Well, when one copy of a game is free and the other is $60, it's a pretty obvious choice. There's really not many ways to beat piracy on the industry side. DRM was basically a fad and is, by many people from the industry, getting cut down.
The best alternative to prevent piracy is to implement popular multiplayer since it's still rather hard to get a pirated copy of a game to play on the same multiplayer as legally obtained copies. Tons of games are picking up multiplayer nowadays for more reasons than it being fun. You ever think Assassin's Creed would've gotten a multiplayer? It's probably more than a coincidence that Brotherhood dropped DRM and got a multiplayer mode (that people actually really liked) at the same time.
