hussam wroteI think it is a good thing. Illegal sharing of copyrighted media needs to die.
Agreed, yet not fully.
I completely disagree that media should be copyrighted. You morally cannot forbid anyone from reproducing ideas. An mp3, a video, a software are nothing more than ideas on how to assemble and disassemble bits on your computer, a hardware you have bought for a price. You should be free to do whatever you want with your computer, and the copyright laws existing should (and most probably will) vanish into a dark corner of Human memory.
However I do not encourage illegal file sharing, exactly for those reasons. Because it is my own very strong belief that illegally sharing those files give copyrighted material a legitimacy. As long as people keep breaking the copyright rule, the copyright rule will still exist.
For example Open Source software would have long prevailed in Lebanon if people had to pay for their software. Same goes for music, video, texts and the rest.