Mr. Cardin, I agree with you that this is all about ensuring that ultimately artists get paid and are rewarded for their work. I think everyone would have to agree that uncompensated uses are detrimental everywhere.
My own view is that we do a number of things. The first thing we do is to get rid of the wealth destroyers, who result in a lot of uncompensated copying. Second, we create rules such that people understand that the proper norm is not to do illegal copying; the proper norm is to buy from iTunes or some other legal marketplace. Then there's compensation through those channels.
The next is to send those signals through statutory damages. If you look around the world, you could take Britain as an example. Britain does not have a private copy levy. Britain decided that a better approach would be not notice and notice, but a notice with a potential for there to be a sanction--not that anyone would ever want to have a sanction, but the point is that studies show that if people know they could get a notice and there could be a sanction, between 70% to 80% of them simply stop. You're never going to get the ultimate hacker to stop, but I don't think we design laws to deal with the end case.