If they really want to go after something, it's libraries. They rent out CD's and movies for free. That means, though the library paid for one or two copies, many people are going to use those copies, meaning they will not pay for the movie. That means for every sale to the library they will lose dozens, even hundreds or thousands of sales for the movie. Same for CD's, not to mention how easy it is to borrow them to rip MP3's and return them. Think about the lost revenue. The RIAA and MPAA need to sue every library they can into oblivion.
And yes, someone will say that most libraries are public ones, but that just means the municipal governments will have to pay up. Or they can go through the records to sue as many people that borrowed it as possible.
Even worse, there are places where people go to rent movies for a fee. Sure, these places buy new movies in fairly high amounts (depending on popularity), but each one will be rented by many people, meaning thousands upon thousands of lost sales. And these criminals make money off this. Even worse, they then sell off most of their new stock at a lower price than retail, whch means each one purchased by someone in this way is another lost sale.
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