Bigger, nicer TVs, home THEATERS, and DVD, then Blu-Ray --- there's your answer. Who wants to go to a theater, try to ignore loud children, annoying people, pay for overpriced, artery-clogging buttered popcorn just to sit through Bride Wars?

The pirates constitute such a miniscule amount of the movie-watching world that the film industry has overcompensated exponentially, I'd guess, by spending millions on anti-piracy. Improve your product! Allow people to purchase movies closer to the release date! The movie industry and the newspaper industry have a lot in common, including staying well behind the times while whining about it.