Are those of us who oppose protecting "intellectual property" doomed to prolonged marginalization?

I've noticed a trend with people who publicly oppose SOPA and PIPA almost compulsively resorting back to defending the "serious nature" of piracy and how it has to be dealt with, that online piracy is wrong, and that people must be punished somehow but not through SOPA or PIPA.

The only example to the contrary that I've heard was on Marketplace last night: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/do-musicians-and-content-makers-benefit-piracy

Musician Jonathan Coulton defends the benefits of piracy in this interview. There's still a hesitancy though in our society to fully embrace the changing winds of our culture, which he points out.

There is this fairly popular idea that it is the responsibility of any complaining industry to fix their product and prevent it from being pirated if they really find it necessary to do so. A lot of up-and-coming musicians rely on piracy to gain exposure, from which they later benefit through ticket-sales and a growing fan base. Most people would respond to this just as Bill Maher did last night, declaring that such an argument is just code for "I want free shit." Instead of dismissing the defense of piracy on such automatic and ill-informed grounds, I want people to realize the inevitability of negative consequences to the free and open internet and to our civil liberties and freedom of speech by introducing any legislation that aims to seriously and effectively battle online piracy.

There is no solution, no matter what the Franken's and the like say about having to fix the piracy problem without impinging on our rights, that actually doesn't have overriding negative side effects. We saw it with the take-down of Megaupload, that people who are not doing any wrong--who are just using the service for uploading "nonillegal" content--have lost their data and are actually injured by such unilateral overreaches of power. The most simple and logical solution is to accept that piracy is a consequence of our technology, and nothing in our current abilities can prevent piracy without hurting our civil liberties. Unless I'm wrong and there are available ideas for methods of curbing piracy without any negative consequences or collateral damage, which I'd be interested in hearing about.