Piracy == drug war?

Pointed to this via BoingBoing

From a CNN article on pirating movies:

"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."

This is just insanity. Hope to stop it’s growth? How? By sending non-violent "criminals" to jail for longer sentences than murderers and rapists? By waging a war against your own citizens? By turning peoples brothers, sisters, children, parents… into the enemy in a war that can not be won? ARG!