[el_chapitan]

People far smarter than me have been saying for a long time that if you make the price of the content more reasonable and make it far easier to get, most people wouldn't bother to pirate.

I have no idea about the numbers, but it's good to see someone who makes money on providing the easier content providing some data on the fact that one of the best ways to remove piracy isn't to randomly sue people to scare them, but to provide them a good product, at a reasonable price and not to go out of your way to make it difficult for people to purchase/license/rent your product.

[venomsnake]

The piracy confrontations are not about the money or revenue maximizing. They are about gatekeeping and distribution control.

[andyhmltn]

I really don't get that argument (from them of course, not you haha.) If you make something super easy to get and a reasonable price (eg: Quite a few comedy specials are appearing for $5 DRM free) then more people will just download it than go through the hassle of a torrent or getting their friends to put it on a memory stick.

[chii]

gate keeping is a means to obtain profit. If you controlled it all, like the old media companies used to, you can make a lot more profit. but with the advent of the internet and p2p distribution, it's becoming hard to control, and this they have completion.