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by bad_user 4941 days ago
> The technically illiterate

I can assure you, those people can and do pirate content just fine, in many cases being easier to copy it from torrents than it is to purchase it ;-)

> People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content

There are 2 problems with these kind of people: as such purchases are all about giving-back, they are easily pissed off by DRM schemes and they are a minority, because we are talking about an economy based on artificial scarcity here.

> People who fear enforcement of copyright law

Also a minority, especially because the probability of being prosecuted as an individual for copyright infringement is smaller than being hit by a car tomorrow.

> The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation

You cannot hand-wave facts.