Initial moves towards banning P2P sites?

Question by JIM: Initial moves towards banning P2P sites?
On the basis that if 95% of the usage of a legal facility consists of illegal downloads then the facility itself should be outlawed, the RIAA is considering launching a campaign to have P2P sites banned following representations from (music) artists fed up with being robbed of royalties supposedly guaranteed to them by law.
Sites such as Limewire and Frostwire have shot themselves in the foot by repeatedly failing to place advisories on their sites warning users that downloads available on the site may actually be illegal and for repeatedly failing to declare the fact that in the case of audio content, mandatory fees to music rights protection societies are not paid which by itself makes the downloads illegal.
Legal actions such as this one
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/274415
will become commonplace over the next two years. Note that the $ 1.9 million fine stems from the defendant’s earlier stubborn refusal to accept a $ 220,000 judgement.
The RIAA states that it is now satisfied that the mass illegal downloading by young people in the 13-25 age group no longer stems from genuine ignorance of the law pertaining to music content but is motivated by simple unwillingness to play fair and use legitimate music downloading sites such as iTunes where 50% of the fee charged to users gets back to the artist as royalties: and most of the balance merely compensates iTunes for the mandatory fees it has paid out for the legal right to handle the content and offer it for download.
No evidence can be found to support Limewire’s challenge to the claims made by RIAA and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) that the site was set up and continues to exist primarily to offer a service that inevitably results in illegal activity by users. Activity which robs music artists of royalties and actors of residuals (guaranteed by their respective contracts) and places the future of the movie industry at risk because it is largely revenue from legitimate (DVD) sales and screenings of existing movies that provides the finance for new movies.
The only solution seems to be to outlaw P2P websites completely.

Best answer:

Answer by Gravy B
The big problem with this argument is that the p2p sites are only trackers they do not host any of the files.

Using the same logic, if my child listens to a rap song that promotes killing cops and then proceeds to do so, I should be able to take over and shut down the record label and every store that distributed it.

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