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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Here's where you should've added the bold. In the end, the only reason people will choose the fair and legal route will be because it's the easy way to go... not because it's fair and legal. (Or, to put another way, when the illegal way to go becomes harder, as in likely to get you in trouble and cost you something.)
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Misanthropy is impractical in general, but it's particularly bad marketing. The success of the early, DRM-strewn, somewhat overpriced iTunes market at a time when for-dummies music download services were commonplace is evidence enough to refute your claim. People routinely jump through hoops to get their media through proper channels, and then they dump more money into prestige editions and merchandise related to their favorites. The more people come to feel that they're not being dealt with fairly, however, the less inclined they'll be to deal fairly with companies offering them hobbled goods on the premise that everyone's a criminal.