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Originally Posted by kane
Yep, I have heard for a long time that the solution to piracy is to make stuff easily available at a good price. But that is bullshit. Look at music. $1 for a song that will last you a lifetime is a fair price. There are 100's if not 1000's of albums on Amazon and iTunes for $5. Those are fair prices and the product is super easy to get, yet millions still download because they don't want to pay even $1.
Like you say, pirates are pirates and they always will be. If the day a movie came out in theaters it was available on DVD, Pay per view, and pay per download so you could pay to see it no matter where you were at a reasonable price, there would still be a ton of people that downloaded it because they are just freeloaders and don't care.
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There's always going to be a group of people that won't pay no matter what.
If somehow magically you managed to stop people pirating content then these people wouldn't buy it either.
Best not to beat yourself up over it because they're not really lost sales. The market you should be targeting is people who pirate because it's easier than buying.