There are two things that seem to drive piracy.
One, software prices that are perceived as being too high for what the product does.
Two, the free software trend where the public is increasingly expecting that somewhere on the web there is a free software package to do what they want.
The byproduct, and I've seen in among friends, is an attitude of simply taking software whether it's legitimately free or not.
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