I feel I am feeding a very energetic troll by even commenting again but there is something nagging at me. The points around the pricing of digital goods are mai

I feel I am feeding a very energetic troll by even commenting again but there is something nagging at me. The points around the pricing of digital goods are mainly related to the particular nature of them: high fixed costs of production and extremely low cost of marginal production. Churlish arguments like the OP's lend emotional creedence to the attempts by business and govt to enforce existing IP law. I think these attempts are going to succeed. Witness the uptick in aggressive IP enforcement actions: high stakes patent battles, domain seizures, arrests. This, coupled with improved legal digital delivery methods, are going to make typical pirating actions more like regular crimes. It will still exist but will be the province of actual anti-social criminal types. Then his arguments will come to be more along the lines of: I pirate because I can get away with it. Like saying, hey, the locks on your car suck so I can take your shit. So as the car owner (imperfect analogy I know) does he expect you to give up and just leave the keys in the ignition? Instead we will see the vigorous attempts to create locks that are good enough to keep most people out and increased efforts at enforcement to arrest the rest. The problem with this is that since it is inherently harder to lock a digital product, increased resources are being put towards enforcement. This is dovetailing with law enforcement actions against hackers. It represents an increase in the power of the govt against citizens, whistle blowers, and activist who actually do care about helping their fellow humans.