Originally Posted by Libertine

And it's actually true for the music industry.

Record companies commercialized bands to the point where music came to be an impersonal product, rather than a personal piece of art. And on top of that, both record companies and successful musicians showed off their wealth in the most tasteless ways possible. through shows like "Cribs". And if that wasn't enough, the record countries actually engaged in illegal price fixing in a number of countries.

For the consumer, that provides a perfect set of moral excuses to infringe copyrights. They don't associate downloading music with hardworking artists missing out on a much-needed paycheck, they associate it with ridiculously rich people who continuously try to screw them over not getting a few extra dollars they don't need anyway.

If you want to dissuade people from infringing upon your copyrights, a good start is to convince them that you're just a hardworking person who's doing his best to make an honest living by providing people with something really good. You won't convert everyone, of course, but you'll reach a fair amount of people.