[Kequc]

Many indie artists have chosen to release their music for free as piracy lowers the bar for them to acquire a broader fan-base. Similarly indie filmmakers want their films to be seen. They still generate the same amount of money they would anyway from die hard indie movie fans who attend indie theaters.

Both do better with more people being aware of them and their content being seen or heard by more people. And, they are not the ones who are going to afford the types of lobbying and legal prosecution that it takes to go after their downloaders.

The only people benefiting from these laws are the very large studios which continue to pull in record profits year after year. The people hurting is everyone else.