The copy-protection MAFIAA (a joke acronym, Movie and Film Industry Association of America, a hypothetical super-beast merger of the vicious & loathed RIAA and the MPAA) spent a while going after BitTorrent itself too, in a similar manner, as a potential tool for piracy.

Thankfully plenty of people were also using BitTorrent for things like distributing Linux distributions & creative commons material.

That, again, may perhaps save the day.