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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
You've really just proved my point. You can buy songs from iTunes for a buck - and yet music piracy is widespread and rampant.
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Is it? It's certainly on the decline. Imagine what the case would be if there were no legal alternatives. I understand that the legal online music market is doing quite well, and better since DRM largely went the way of the dodo.
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$1 is still more than free, and some people want free. You can't price things so cheaply that it still won't be cheaper than free.
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Of course not, but there
is a tipping point of "cheap enough", at least if your time's worth anything at all. I wouldn't spend 10 minutes on some obscure website if I could obtain the same result for a dollar. For books it's largely similar: 10$ I'm fine with. 24.99? Not so much.
Oh, and there's always a demographic that just can't
afford these goods legally. The moral choice would be to abstain from consuming them, of course, but it's a fallacy to equal copyright infringements with lost sales.