Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more?

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Big Content often claims to be losing absurd amounts of cash to a peg-legged and eye-patched crowd of Internet pirates. To deal with the problem, entertainment lobbyists around the world have suggested that governments might want to mandate “three strikes” laws to punish repeat online infringers, and that Internet service providers should get involved in the battle. But three-strikes rules have their own significant costs, and ISPs are now waging a “bogus numbers” battle of their own in an effort to defeat the proposals.