The original article hinted at the reason for your views. Firstly, the 95% piracy rate they are reporting is worldwide, not the rate of piracy in the USA. In

The original article hinted at the reason for your views. Firstly, the 95% piracy rate they are reporting is worldwide, not the rate of piracy in the USA. In the USA, piracy rates have never been all that high, but cart yourself over to China or Singapore and you find people selling pirated software/music/whatever on the street corners.