One of the more interesting chapters in the Steve Jobs book discusses the time when Jobs finally convinced the recording industry that piracy wasn't necessarily

One of the more interesting chapters in the Steve Jobs book discusses the time when Jobs finally convinced the recording industry that piracy wasn't necessarily a problem because people want free stuff (though that is a portion of it) but that it was simply easier than the alternatives. (In the case of the music industry at the time, every label had their own solution and they were all a pain to use.) This experiment (and other humorous examples like this: http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview) displays the complexity of trying to prevent piracy by fighting it. If a critical mass of people want something and there isn't a convenient way to get it, alternatives will arise. Life... er... pirates will always find a way.