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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
And boom, there it is.
Game of Thrones, the most pirated TV show in Canada, is unavailable to the Canadian audience without a prohibitive associated cost.
There's no other method of attaining the show without spending 70 dollars just for the opportunity to pay for the channel. No online streaming, and no pay-per-use pay model.
The people that are pirating that show are the same people who would otherwise be buying it if they could. Given access, people will spend their money.
Steam is the ultimate applicable example here. Digital content management that is easy to use, fairly priced and easier than pirating. There's no mystery why it's so successful. It's harder to pirate games than paying the reasonable fee of owning them, forever.
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Another good example is Adobe's CS Suite. I pirated every version for 15 years for home use and now the with the creative cloud and discounts available, every CS application for $30/month, shut up and take my money.