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Producing less of it, yeah, maybe. But people seem to be forgetting that producing content or enriching content creators is not the goal of copyright law. It's supposed to "further the progress of science and the useful arts", and there is clearly a tradeoff between allowing people to copy versus allowing creators to monetize their creations.
It's supposed to be a tradeoff, exactly. The reason why you want producers to get money is so that they can keep producing stuff you like.
My point is not that they shouldn't be paid. The question is how it was decided that suing college kids and moms for copyright infringement to protect enormous profits by media conglomerates and moving towards increasingly punitive IP enforcement is the appropriate tradeoff. It doesn't seem the media companies acknowledge there should be any tradeoff.