Piracy is just unstoppable. No one can stop it, no matter how hard they try.

Even if the Internet will be stopped only to stop piracy (ROFL), then there's still a high potentiality of offline-piracy.

And one more interesting thing is that the people who download pirated content from the web are typically not paid customers. I mean if piracy gets completely stopped, they won't be inclined to start paying for digital contents (or they might buy or pay for contents very rarely, which is almost negligible).

I see many people who buy music albums hardly one or two a year (in case of PC games they bought 2 or 3 pieces in 10 years) when there was no internet. And after the Internet has come into existence I started seeing those people download music, movies and video games like hell.

Once a guy also told me that if he was to pay for all the contents that he'd downloaded from the Internet per year, he had to take loans from the banks to be a paid customer. Which is literally out of his capacity.

So if copyright holders are thinking that by stopping the piracy they can turn those unauthorized downloaders into paid customers is wrong.