Music piracy : majors hesitate between big stick and education

The French site www.promusicfrance.com aims at telling the public opinion how perverse are the effects of illegal downloads on the Web, hence showing the reader the way to legal d/l sites. This educational initiative is to praise and would be even more if any of the latter were compatible for the Mac.
At the same time the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique [National Record Editors Syndicate] claim they wish people who d/l music illegaly would start to be sued in France. Our minister of Culture seems to agree with their point of view.
We voluntarily proposed you those two infos in that order. In our view it is better to start changing people's minds, then punish if it fails. We are quite persuaded the recording industry has paid so high a price because they didn't move in tome. They've been refusing for years to consider online d/l, hence encouraging illegal d/l.
We hope to have a Europen iTMS soon enough, so Mac users would gain access to a (quality) legal online music service.