Will people be deterred from piracy activities through conviction of one person?

Article- The Straits Times(19/5/07)
-HK man loses Internet piracy appeal

My stand on this issue is that the deterrence effect will only be a short term one for most people and people will resume to the use of Internet as a medium of sharing files thereafter.

Nowadays, the main medium at which people receive media files are either through downloading from the Internet, burning of CDs or through sharing of files with friends, while some people still buy the original CDs. Through these trends, we can see that there is a high usage of the Internet to obtain media files. This is probably due to several factors, such as the cost, the accessibility to such media files, the range of media files available, the rate at which the more recent media files are uploaded on the Internet and the most important factor being that no governments are acting against such acts of piracy. All these factors tend to cause people to prefer the obtaining of files through the Internet.

Back to the article, one HK man has recently been sentenced to a three-month prison term for infringement of copyright as he uploaded movie files on the Internet and this is the first case of people in the world being convicted of distributing movies over the popular online BitTorrent network. Thus, this issue would have led to much commotion amongst the public for a while and probably, this might lead to people stopping their uploading and downloading of media files through the Internet.
However, I feel that this effect is going to be short term. From the reasons I have stated above, people are accustomed to obtaining of media files from the Internet due to the high accessibility and the low cost of doing so. With the many benefits of the Internet in the aspect of obtaining media files, piracy will tend to continue. In addition, with not many governments are acting on people violating the issue of copyright in this aspect, general public will tend to continue to obtain media files through use of Internet.