"People pirate games with DRM because the pirate version is better than the legit one." How do we know that the people that pirate games with DRM aren't doing

"People pirate games with DRM because the pirate version is better than the legit one." How do we know that the people that pirate games with DRM aren't doing it because it's "easy"? "You could easily argue that the DRM is increasing both the number and social acceptability of software pirates, which is basically the opposite of what it claims to be doing." No, the piratebay is increasing the social acceptability of software pirates. So is the increasing rate of entitlement among people in their 20s. This small example shows me that having no DRM (or any other kind of protection) means an application developer will not make any money on their app because most people will just pirate it. DRM at least helps prevent piracy to some degree. Downloadable apps are on the way out. Because of piracy, I predict most companies will move over to web services in the future. This should make most people happy because now, instead of paying for software once, you will need to pay for it every month/year.