[TallGuyShort]

It's absolutely a false dichotomy. I have wanted DRM-free digital copies of movies that I paid to see in theaters and paid to get the DVD. Where can I get a DRM-free copy? Illegally. I would pay for it, but it's not for sale. Many statutes of limitations ago, I pirated a lot of music that I would never have paid for otherwise. I actually went and bought a lot of it on CD because I discovered I liked it and wanted to own the original CD. In my case, piracy has caused no loss to movie studios because I've never pirated a movie when I had the faintest option of buying it legally, and was a net gain to record labels because I've bought music I wouldn't have even discovered without piracy. I'm sure the odd thing has slipped through that maybe I would have discovered and bought through some other channel eventually, and not everyone does this maybe, but I agree with you that the calculations are way off and presume too much.