Potential profit? If the price is not low enough to encourage this person to buy the product then you have a different problem. Digital goods manufacturers can

Potential profit? If the price is not low enough to encourage this person to buy the product then you have a different problem. Digital goods manufacturers can't simply price their goods without considering the ease of access that people have to these. Well, in reality, they do consider it. It is why PC games for example tend to be much cheaper and go on sale much more often than console games. It hasn't really stopped the PC gaming market from growing every year though. Piracy is a pricing problem, not a theft problem. Just look at streaming services. Also, you might be thinking of immediate profits but most of these businesses rely on much longer lifecycles. A child might pirate game 1 when they are 13 and then when they are 17 and have their first job they might buy game 2 on a sale (from the same companyl and when they are adults will keep buying the newly released games because they have been converted. This is the case for many. Don't be silly and reduce complex issues to simple phrases.