[newaccountfool]

You don't even have to live in a developing country, some of the only ways to access one tv show is to pay a £15+ per month subscription to say Sky or Virgin so that you can access a small majority of tv shows when they air.

Canistream.it is a good example of all of the services you need to watch movies, and that's just movies not music.

Piracy will still be a large problem because it's either to expensive to access or you need lots of services to access all of the content, of course there are people who never pay for anything and will continue to do so even if easier to access and cheaper but I think they will be a small majority.

[thewarrior]

Why can't stuff be priced according to the purchasing power parity of that country. A lot of this stuff is simply over priced by our standards.

[Amezarak]

> Why can't stuff be priced according to the purchasing power parity of that country. A lot of this stuff is simply over priced by our standards.

Disclaimer: I am a proud pirate.

Generalizing, rightholders don't care. They regard intellectual property as pretty much analogous to physical property. They don't have to sell you something if they don't want to, and they don't have to sell something they're selling at a price point amenable to you. They regard the idea that somehow people are "owed" media content at a price reasonable to them to be an example of a sense of supreme, titanic, piratical entitlement. Can't afford it? Don't watch|listen|use it, then.

[KaiserPro]

Well people have gotta make a living right?

[Gurkenmaster]

Steam already does this to a certain degree but a lot of people from the higher paying countries are abusing it to get cheaper games.