Digital goods tend to be inferior goods with inelastic demand curves. As your income rises, your consumption of them doesn't go up after a certain point and pe

Digital goods tend to be inferior goods with inelastic demand curves. As your income rises, your consumption of them doesn't go up after a certain point and people aren't likely to pay more for a digital good once they have something that is "good enough". The DTrace guy blogged about this here http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/date/20040828 http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/date/20040828