people that make the money of the music are VERY rich, not just a bit - it's a large concentration of wealth in one person (or a few) Metallica puts pressure on and things happen, they have millions of dollars of their own to get things done with when people pirate Adobe Photoshop (hundreds of dollars even with student discount) not much happens, because while the software is very expensive, the wealth is not concentrated that's all immaterial, though the ends do not justify the means when you allow something perfectly legal to be shut down just to stop something illegal