i think that the major problem on this issue is the
DRM aka
Digital Restriction Management which represents the despaired tries of large industries to transfer physical merchandising strategies into the all new beautiful digital world. instead of adapting to new market situations and making videos, games and movies available for much less than the hardcopy equivalents, these folks insists to resemble an equivalent amount of money for a digital good. it doesnt matter in this case if we're talking about music, movies, ebooks or other goods such as software.
instead of lowering the price and making it available to a broader audience, which definitly would like to spend a given amount for an item, instead of wasting time by downloading some trash disguised as teh desired object from a p2p network, the current strategies try to milk their proper customer wherever possible.
as long as a price for a pure virtual item (lets say a song) is more than 1 usd (have a look here:
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-be ... d402060584 - each song for 1.29 EUR) people will seek a possibility to get it cheaper, illegal if neccessary.
there are enough companies who already discovered this, that having an essential low price attracts a bigger audience since every tom, dick and harry now feels that a digital service is available at a fair price (Google ADs, WoW to name just two)
Its a simple misconcept of how a major industry tries to enforce its consumers to get milked.
Than lower the price, then more people will be attracted for an item.
But teach this digital evolution to a dickhead who only knows the web from pictures in a newspaper and who insists of transferring an outdated business modell to a new age.
my 2 cents
dR
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havnt downloaded music in about a year.
