Oh really?

“If I have to wait a year to see an episode of British TV and that heps them make enough money to make the programs I like, then so be it, who cares?”

One year is a very long time for just a single TV episode. In that sense, a viewer would forget what is going on in the shows and may no longer hold interest, which is not good to broadcasters.

“Who cares if you have to wait or spend a tiny amount of cash?”

It depends what you mean by tiny amount and what that tiny amount is spent on.

“Who cares if you can’t have everything you want?”

Who cares if you can’t have everything you want?

“Do you really think we have all this great culture because people were doing it out of pure goodness?”

No, but by pure artistic expression.

“It took money, man, and when the money goes so does the culture.”

You have an extremely poor sense of culture.

“It’s not like Michelangelo lay on his back [...]”

And what is your point? People wouldn’t usually build or paint large buildings without being hired, and being hired implies being payed at some nonzero rate.

“You just rationalize not wanting to pay for the goods you take – all this other shit is is a rationalization.”

You are trying to rationalize others’ irrational behaviors and speculate rationalizations that do not exist, which in turn makes you a hypocrite.

Let the decentralization and encryption of the filesharing universe begin.

Go ahead – people will simply find ways around your methods.

And even – if by some miracle – you manage to throttle every filesharer in Europe and North America – there’s still the vast developing world: try enforcing your idiotic laws there!

In the war between technology and legality, it is technology that is winning worldwide. And if it kills the music and movie industries – so much the better. Who needs those vested interests anyway? Everyone knows that they aren’t about making music and movies anyway – they’re about making money.