So wait, your solution is to encourage all consumers to break the law and put themselves at legal risk, rather than have reasonable legislation focused on consumer welfare and encouraging competition?
The laws take time, need to be tested in courts and are generally not as effective.
If you're constantly under threat of losing your entire income stream and there's nothing you can do to prevent that (because the only way to prevent piracy of digital content is to ban the internet) it's a pretty decent motivator to do the right thing.
Everyone could have stolen cable back in the day and caused a decrease in cable prices and increase in customer experience. They didn't.