Piracy is the result of ridiculous prices. People started heavily pirating movies when the price went up over $5 per ticket. Music piracy was pushed by the cost of CDs to just get one good song.
In other words, give people a reasonable price to be legal and the mayority will do the legal thing. Try to screw the consumer and the consumer will find a way to enjoy the product without paying for it.
Guess why iTunes/iPod was successful where everybody else was barely making it?? iTunes gave people music for $0.99 per song.
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