I think "competing with piracy" is pretty stupid phrase that legitimizes piracy. I could care less if people pirate(for whatever reason), but they shouldn't pr

I think "competing with piracy" is pretty stupid phrase that legitimizes piracy. I could care less if people pirate(for whatever reason), but they shouldn't pretend that it's ethical. Or that trying to curb piracy is a bad thing. The big content industry maximizes profit, not consumer surplus. When the profit equation changes, you better believe their practices will change. Is it ethical to maximize profit? Probably not, but that doesn't make piracy OK either. The vast majority of the things they do are mildly annoying at best. Truthfully it's not the piracy that bothers me, just the hypocrisy/cognitive dissonance that I see all the time when piracy is discussed online. You want to pirate photoshop? Go ahead, nobody cares, don't pretend that adobe has greatly wronged you so it's only fair that you use photoshop for free though.