So after reading the article I didn't see as piracy creates purchases but more as, there are people who just can't get enough and they buy and copy to satisfy t

So after reading the article I didn't see as piracy creates purchases but more as, there are people who just can't get enough and they buy and copy to satisfy themselves. Similar to drug addicts and the RIAA is similarly trying to keep on selling their stuff like a pusher. Sometimes those people aren't loyal and will get it somewhere else but they come back. Obviously there are other types of people. Most pirates I know or from similar threads on reddit and elsewhere that I saw who won't buy from iTunes or go to the movies would not even buy it even if they couldn't pirate the movie. They pirate stuff just for fun, they don't really care about the stuff enough to ever pay for it (or they can't pay for it and when they can maybe they will change their style.) Reformed pirates do exist. You are always going to have dead weight like them and the RIAA is wasting it's time going after them because those aren't the ones usually getting caught (they use whatever newest way to get the stuff which the RIAA has a hard time of tracking). What they do by suing is get the people who do both aka your customers. The average person who will buy and copy once in a while off crapy p2p software that should be called spy tools for the RIAA. But with the ease of use of iTunes and other such service, it's becoming a larger waste of time to copy then to get them from legally licensed sites. Amazon MP3 is lightyears easier than bittorent and that has converted a lot of people to paying. As for Movies, there currently isn't a good service out there (Netflix is ok but selection isn't that great) on par with the offerings for legal music sites.