Also, if studios were so worried about illegal downloads, they wouldn’t (in a right mindset) block access to legal means of getting to their content from outside “approved” areas of the world, thereby leaving the illegal method as the only one for many people (unless those people don’t mind waiting two years for that new series that they will already have spoilered completely by the time they get it).

Oh wait, I’m not a studio; I’ll STFU.

“this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.”

Sure, freeways can help criminals get away quickly but it is also used legally by many. The same is with bit-torrent.

And last I checked, nearly all the movies people pirate are already major successes where the publishers are already making loads of money. Yes, pirating content is a bad thing and only done by greedy, lazy people but that doesn’t mean bit-torrent should be banned. By that sort of logic, the entire Internet ought to be banned and taken offline.

So basically what i’m saying is Wil Wheaton should STFU